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Platonov

Platonov

by David Hare (Translator), Anton Chekhov (Author), Anton Chekhov (Author), David Hare (Translator)

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    Paperback 2001

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Synopsis

In 1997, David Hare adapted the little-known play, Ivanov, and revealed the young Anton Chekhov as a markedly different writer from the one English-speaking audiences recognize from the more familiar plays. Now Hare has turned his attention to another, equally surprising key work of Chekhov's youth - an abandoned seven-hour teenage manuscript in which a Russian schoolmaster faces up to the implications of being irresistibly attractive to four different women. Once again, we are introduced to a great Russian playwright who is funnier, more exuberant and more wildly romantic than anyone expects. Platonov, in this adaptation, was premiered at the Almeida Theatre, London, in September 2001.

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Format: Paperback
 Pages: 192
 Edition: Main
 Publisher: Faber & Faber
Published: 03 Sep 2001
ISBN 10: 0571210511
ISBN 13: 9780571210510
Book Overview: Anton Chekhov's Platonov is here brilliantly adapted by David Hare - to reveal a Chekhov funnier, more exuberant, and more wildly romantic than we've seen him before.

Media Reviews
Once again, we are shown a great writer who is funnier, more exuberant, and more wildly romantic than anyone expects as Hare . . . demonstrates why Chekhov is one of theatre's great dramatists --Michael Billington, The Guardian
Author Bio
Anton Chekhov, Russian dramatist and short-story writer, was born in 1860, the son of a grocer and the grandson of a serf. After graduating in medicine from Moscow University in 1884, he began to make his name in the theatre with the one-act comedies The Bear, The Proposal and The Wedding. His earliest full-length plays, Ivanov (1887) and The Wood Demon (1889), were not successful, and The Seagull, produced in 1896, was a failure until a triumphant revival by the Moscow Art Theatre in 1898. This was followed by Uncle Vanya (1899), Three Sisters (1901) and The Cherry Orchard (1904), shortly after the production of which Chekhov died. The first English translations of his plays were performed within five years of his death. David Hare's first full-length play was produced in 1970. Since then he has written over thirty stage plays and twenty-five screenplays for film and television. The plays include Plenty, Pravda (with Howard Brenton), The Secret Rapture, Racing Demon, Skylight, Amy's View, The Blue Room, Via Dolorosa, Stuff Happens, The Absence of War, The Judas Kiss, The Red Barn and The Moderate Soprano. For cinema, he has written The Hours, The Reader, Damage, Denial, Wetherby and The White Crow among others, while his television films include Licking Hitler, the Worricker Trilogy (Page Eight, Turks & Caicos, and Salting the Battlefield) and Collateral. In a millennial poll of the greatest plays of the twentieth century, five of the top hundred were his.