Anton Cehov

Pescărușul e prima dintre cele patru mari piese ale dramaturgului rus Anton Pavlovici Cehov. Piesa a fost scrisă în 1895 și a fost pentru prima dată pusă în scenă în 1896. Textul dramatizează conflictul romantic și artistic născut între 4 personaje: ingenua Nina, autoritara doamnă Irina Arkadina, fiul ei, creator de …

Chekhov first attained celebrity status as a playwright with The Seagull (1895), first produced in Petersburg, but subsequently brilliantly directed by Stanislavsky for the Moscow Art Theatre. Uncle Vanya (1900), Three Sisters (1901)andthe most famous of Chekhov's plays, The Cherry Orchard (1904), followed in quick …

Platonov is the name in English given to an early, untitled play in four acts written by Anton Chekhov in 1878. It was the first large-scale drama by Chekhov, written specifically for Maria Yermolova, rising star of Maly Theatre. Yermolova rejected the play and it was not published until 1923. The lead character is …