Anton: 1572 books

First performed at the Moscow Art Theatre in 1904, directed by Konstantin Stanislavski, The Cherry Orchard remains a classic of the theatre. Completed less than a year before his death at the age of forty-four, Chekhov’s last ‘comedy’ still ranks supreme as a human tragedy of dispossession with...

In PROSOROV'S house. A sitting-room with pillars; behind is seen a large dining-room. It is midday, the sun is shining brightly outside. In the dining-room the table is being laid for lunch. OLGA, in the regulation blue dress of a teacher at a girl's high school, is walking about correcting exercise...

Ivanov, a driving force in local government and a visionary landowner, feels burnt out at thirty-fi ve. Once the pioneer of scientifi c farming methods and of education for the peasants, he now drowns in bureaucracy and debt, his large estate neglected. While his wife is dying, Sasha, a young, educated...

‘You won’t be here. Not in thirty years. You’ll have had a stroke, or I’ll have shot you. It’ll be one or the other.’ Three sisters. Three thousand miles from home. Overworked Olga, wild Masha and idealistic Irina dream of returning. Living in a world of deceit, desire and hard...

• Originally premiered Off-Broadway with the Roundabout Theatre Company in the fall of 2016 • Original production starred Academy Award-nominated actress Diane Lane • Karam won the 2016 Tony Award for Best Play for his smash hit play The Humans • Karam has written two...

Čechov oggi: una modernità che mozza il fiato. A più di cent'anni dalla morte è vivo, vivissimo, gode di ottima salute. I suoi racconti ci coinvolgono, ci fanno pensare e reagire come fossero scritti soltanto ieri, anche se sono cambiati abiti, ambienti, consuetudini. La raccolta comprende, tra...

Autore che sfugge alle etichette, ferocemente introverso, acuto osservatore del decadimento morale e intellettuale della società russa, Čechov anticipa caratteri e temi del moderno teatro novecentesco. L’attitudine rassegnata e dolente di fronte a un ineluttabile sempre sottinteso, l’attenzione...

Fantastic tales of demons and the Evil Eye, magical incantations, and powerful attractions abound in Enchantress, a novel that weaves together Talmudic lore, ancient Jewish magic, and a timeless love story set in fourth-century Babylonia. One of the most powerful practitioner of these mysterious...

Имение помещицы Любови Андреевны Раневской. Весна, цветут вишневые деревья. Но прекрасный сад скоро должен быть продан за долги. Последние пять лет Раневская и её...

Laevsky is a dissipated romantic given to gambling and flirtation. He has run off to the sea with another man's wife and quickly grown tired of her, but two obstacles block his route to escape: he is broke, and he faces the absolute enmity of Von Koren, an arrogant zoologist and former friend who can...

A native Frenchman no longer tutors the wealthy landlord's children as they've grown up and left the house. The Frenchman is now paid simply to be around, to be properly dressed, to smell of scent, and to listen to Kamyshev's babble, to eat and drink and sleep. It may sound like a dream job but there's always a catch.

Strizhin, who normally leads a sober and regular life, comes home from a christening party where he had permitted himself to drink four glasses of vodka and a glass of wine, the taste of which suggested something midway between vinegar and castor oil. And of course spirituous liquors being like sea-water...

Yegor the huntsman, walking down a country road accidentally meets his estranged wife Pelageya whom he's been married for twelve years but visited just several times, and even then, drunk and violent. She weeps and, fawning before him, implores him to visit her more often. He tries to explain why...

Polinka, a thin fair little person whose mother is the head of a dressmaking establishment, is standing in the middle of the shop looking about for some one. Nikolay Timofeitch, a graceful dark young man, fashionably dressed, with frizzled hair and a big pin in his cravat, has already cleared a place on the counter and is craning forward, looking at Polinka with a smile.