1. ANTON CHEKHOV
His Works

2. Anton Chekhov
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.

3. 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.

6. 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

7. Ivanov
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 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)

9. The Seagull

12. Uncle Vanya

16. Three Sisters

18. Steppenwolf Theatre

20. The Cherry Orchard (1904)

21. Moscow Art Theatre

22. 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

23. Irene Worth as Ranyevskaya

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

25. Linda Hunt (Charlotta) 1988

26. Lincoln Center Theatre – 2016 Act One

27. Classic Stage Company (2011)

28. Act Two

29. Act Three

30. Act Three

31. Act Three

32. Act Four

33. BAM

34. Platonov

35. Wild Honey – 1984 (adaptation of Platonov)

36. THE PROPOSAL
1944, Soviet production

37. A Filipino production, 2011