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IVANOV

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From: The Village Voice
Date: 20050817
Author:Ng, David

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IVANOV

By Anton Chekhov

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Anton Chekhov's Ivanov is routinely labeled a "problem play" for being gloomy, psychologically opaque, and long, among other unforgivable traits. Critics invariably describe it as a warm-up to the Russian playwright's great masterworks, and as a result, contemporary revivals of Ivanov are often faulted for not being The Cherry Orchard or Uncle Vanya. What does it take to look at this play afresh? The National Asian American Theater Company's new production of Ivanov doesn't attempt any radical revisions to ...

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