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''[[Chekov in Yalta]]'' is a play by John Driver ()[] and Jeffrey Haddow  ()[].
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==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.
 
 
 
The play received the  Los Angeles Drama Critics Award for Distinguished Playwrighting and the American Theatre Critics Citation.
 
 
 
==Translations and adaptations==
 
 
 
== Performance history in South Africa ==
 
 
 
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==
 
 
 
[[Pretoria News]], 23 May 1985.
 
 
 
Go to [[ESAT Bibliography]]
 
 
 
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Return to [[PLAYS I: Original SA plays]]
 
 
 
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