This author's nephew Michael was the first exemplar of method acting.
This author called for the sound of a string in the sky snapping at the end of one play. This author's nephew Michael was the first exemplar of method acting. A man on vacation can't stop obsessing over a woman and her Pomeranian in a well-anthologized story by this author. This author said that, if a (*) gun is onstage in Act I, it needs to go off by the end of the play. An ex-servant buys his old estate in a play by this author that ends with the sound of an axe. After Nina refuses a gift of a dead bird, Trepilov shoots himself, in a play by this author. For 10 points, name this Russian author of The Seagull and The Cherry Orchard.
This author called for the sound of a string in the sky snapping at the end of one play.
Anton Chekhov