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Chekhov's tears.(Literature)(Anton Chekhov's The Cherry Orchard)

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From: Quadrant
Date: 20071001
Author:Sandall, Roger

DON'T GO to the theatre. Don't even go out. Just find a chair, stop the music, and read Chekhov. For some reason he's better on the page than on the stage--probably because the Russian playwright was greatly gifted, while most directors and actors are not. So don't go out: stay home where Chekhov belongs.

In town not long ago there was a Russian production of Uncle Vanya with a haystack hanging in midair. The director was evidently of the Why Not? theatrical school:

A: Do you think we could have a flying haystack?

B: Where?

A: Up there in the sky!

B: ...

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