ANTON CHEKHOV His Works

Anton Chekhov 1860-1904 Dramatist, short story writer, and novelist; during his early career, worked as a physician, beginning 1884; editor of the literary section of Russkaya mysl, 1903; founder of two rural schools.

Awards Pushkin Prize, Division of Russian Language and Letters of the Academy of Sciences, 1888, for collection of stories, In the Twilight; elected Honorary Academician of the Pushkin Section of Belle Lettres of the Academy of Sciences, 1899; awarded Order of St. Stanislav for work in the cause of national education, 1899; Griboedov Prize, Society of Dramatic Writers and Opera Composers, for The Three Sisters: A Drama in Four Acts.

The Bear The Cherry Orchard Ivanov The Proposal On the Harmful Effects of Tobacco Platonov The Seagull Three Sisters A Tragedian in Spite of Himself Uncle Vanya The Wedding The Wood Demon

Ivanov - 1887 Ivanov was first performed in 1887, when Fiodor Korsh, owner of the Korsh Theatre in Moscow, commissioned Chekhov to write a comedy. Chekhov, however, responded with a four-act drama, which he wrote in ten days. Despite the success of its first performance, the production disgusted Chekhov himself. In a letter to his brother, he wrote that he "did not recognise his first remarks as my own" and that the actors "do not know their parts and talk nonsense". Irritated by this failure, Chekhov made alterations to the play. Consequently the final version is different from that first showing. After this re-write, it was accepted to be performed in St. Petersburg in 1889. Chekhov's re-write was a success and offered a foretaste for the style and themes of his subsequent masterpieces. (Wikipedia, attributed to Michael Billington)

The Seagull - 1896

Uncle Vanya - 1897

Three Sisters - 1901

Steppenwolf Theatre

The Cherry Orchard (1904)

Moscow Art Theatre - 1904

Lincoln Center – 1977 Raul Julia as Lopakhin Max Wright as Simeonov-Pishchik Meryl Streep as Dunyasha Mary-Beth Hurt as Anya Meryl Streep as Dunyasha

Irene Worth as Ranyevskaya

Ethan Hawke (Trofimov) 1908 David Hyde Pierce (Yasha) 1988

Linda Hunt (Charlotta) 1988

Lincoln Center Theatre – 2016 Act One

Classic Stage Company (2011)

Act Two

Act Three

Act Three

Act Three

Act Four

BAM - 2016

Platonov - 1927

Wild Honey – 1984 (adaptation of Platonov)

THE PROPOSAL 1944, Soviet production

A Filipino production, 2011