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==The original text==
 
==The original text==
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Set in in April of 1900, the play is about the time Chekhov was confined in his villa at Yalta by illness and receives a delightful visit by the Moscow Art Theatre, who had embarked on a provincial tour in order to persuade Chekhov to give them his latest play. Among the characters are Stanislavski, Valdmir Nemirovich Danchenko, Gorky, Ivan Bunin and actress Olga Knipper.
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It was first performed at the Mark Taper Forum in Los Angeles on 1981, directed by Ellis Rabb and Gordon Davidson.
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The play received the  Los Angeles Drama Critics Award for Distinguished Playwrighting and the American Theatre Critics Citation.
  
 
==Translations and adaptations==
 
==Translations and adaptations==
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Filmed for ITV and broadcast in 1988.[https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2292258/]
  
 
== Performance history in South Africa ==
 
== Performance history in South Africa ==
  
1985: Performed by [[PACT]] at [[State Theatre Drama]], Pretoria, directed by [[Richard Haines]] with  [[Frantz Dobrowsky]] (as "Chekov"), [[Charlotte Butler]] ("Olga"), [[Michel McCabe]], [[James Borthwick]] ("Stanislavski"), [[Peter Terry]], [[Claire Stopford]], [[Jacqui Singer]] as ("Masha"), [[Martin le Maitre]] ("Maxim Gorky") and [[Billy Second]].
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1985: Performed by [[PACT]] at [[State Theatre|State Theatre Drama]], Pretoria, directed by [[Richard Haines]] with  [[Frantz Dobrowsky]] (as "Chekov"), [[Charlotte Butler]] ("Olga"), [[Michael McCabe]], [[James Borthwick]] ("Stanislavski"), [[Peter Terry]], [[Claire Stopford]], [[Jacqui Singer]] as ("Masha"), [[Martin le Maitre]] ("Maxim Gorky") and [[Billy Second]].
  
 
==Sources==
 
==Sources==
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_productions_at_the_Mark_Taper_Forum#1981/1982
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https://www.concordtheatricals.com/p/5644/chekhov-in-yalta
  
 
[[Pretoria News]], 23 May 1985.
 
[[Pretoria News]], 23 May 1985.

Latest revision as of 09:33, 27 January 2022

Chekov in Yalta is a play by John Driver ()[] and Jeffrey Haddow ()[].

The original text

Set in in April of 1900, the play is about the time Chekhov was confined in his villa at Yalta by illness and receives a delightful visit by the Moscow Art Theatre, who had embarked on a provincial tour in order to persuade Chekhov to give them his latest play. Among the characters are Stanislavski, Valdmir Nemirovich Danchenko, Gorky, Ivan Bunin and actress Olga Knipper.

It was first performed at the Mark Taper Forum in Los Angeles on 1981, directed by Ellis Rabb and Gordon Davidson.

The play received the Los Angeles Drama Critics Award for Distinguished Playwrighting and the American Theatre Critics Citation.

Translations and adaptations

Filmed for ITV and broadcast in 1988.[1]

Performance history in South Africa

1985: Performed by PACT at State Theatre Drama, Pretoria, directed by Richard Haines with Frantz Dobrowsky (as "Chekov"), Charlotte Butler ("Olga"), Michael McCabe, James Borthwick ("Stanislavski"), Peter Terry, Claire Stopford, Jacqui Singer as ("Masha"), Martin le Maitre ("Maxim Gorky") and Billy Second.

Sources

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_productions_at_the_Mark_Taper_Forum#1981/1982

https://www.concordtheatricals.com/p/5644/chekhov-in-yalta

Pretoria News, 23 May 1985.

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