 The United States premiere was in New York in 1915.In 1935, Russian theatre producer and director Vsevolod Meyerhold produced "33 Swoons" (also translated as "33 Fainting Fits"), which was a production that combined Chekhov's "The Anniversary", "The Bear", and "The Proposal".Meyerhold counted 33 cases of swooning and combined these three plays with swooning as the key comedic gag.