Who wrote the play based on two characters from Anton Chekhov's plays?
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Afterplay (play) Afterplay is a 2002 one-act play by Brian Friel. It centres on two characters from Chekhov (Sonya from "Uncle Vanya" and Andrey from "Three Sisters") meeting in Moscow in the 1920s.
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Three Sisters (play) Three Sisters (Russian: Три сeстры́ , "Tri sestry " ) is a play by the Russian author and playwright Anton Chekhov. It was written in 1900 and first performed in 1901 at the Moscow Art Theatre. The play is sometimes included on the short list of Chekhov's outstanding plays, along with "The Cherry Orchard", "The Seagull" and "Uncle Vanya".
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Live Not as You Would Like To Live Not as You Would Like To (Russian: Не так живи, как хочется , Romanized as: Ne tak zhivi kak khochetsya) is a play by Alexander Ostrovsky. It premiered on 3 December 1854 at the Moscow's Maly Theatre and was published for the first time in the No. 17, September 1855 issue of "Moskvityanin" magazine.
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The Jew (play) The Jew is a comedy written by playwright Richard Cumberland and first presented at the Drury Lane Theatre in London in May 1794. The play is notable as the first play in the English theatre to portray a Jewish moneylender as the hero of a stage production. An adaptation of the original play along with a facsimile copy of "The Jew" was published in 2012 as "Sheva, the Benevolent".
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Alexander Chudakov Alexander Pavlovich Chudakov (Russian: Алекса́ндр Па́влович Чудако́в ; February 2, 1938, Shchuchinsk – October 3, 2005, Moscow) was a Russian philologist and writer, known for his study of Chekhov, and for the novel "A Gloom is Cast Upon the Ancient Steps", which was awarded the Russian Booker Prize of the decade in 2011.
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The Two Orphans (play) The Two Orphans (French:Les Deux orphelines) is a historical play by the French writers Adolphe d'Ennery and Eugène Cormon. It premiered on 20 January 1874 at the Théâtre de la Porte Saint-Martin in Paris. A melodrama set during the French Revolution, it takes place in five acts.
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Marriage (play) Marriage (Russian: Женитьба , "Zhenit'ba") is a two-act play by the Russian writer Nikolai Gogol, which was written in 1832 and first published in 1842.
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The Wood Demon (play) The Wood Demon (Russian: "Леший" , "Goblin" , 1889) is a comedic play in four acts by Anton Chekhov.
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The Two Widows The Two Widows () is a two-act Czech opera by Bedřich Smetana based on the libretto of Emanuel Züngel. The libretto is based on Jean Pierre Felicien Mallefille's one-act play "Les deux veuves". The opera was composed between June 1873 and January 1874, and its premiere took place on 27 March 1874 at the Prague Czech Theatre under the direction of Smetana. However, this premiere was not successful and the opera was rewritten in 1874. The spoken dialogue was replaced by through-composed recitatives and some of the music and characters were reworked. The second premiere on 20 October 1874 was very successful. A further revised version was premiered on 17 March 1878, under Adolf Čech.
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The Russian People The Russian People is a 1942 play by Clifford Odets adapted from a Russian original by Konstantin Simonov.
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Easter Eve (short story) "Easter Eve" (Russian: Святою ночью , "Svyatoyu nochyu " ) is a 1886 short story by Anton Chekhov.
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The Brighton Twins (play) The Brighton Twins (French: Les jumeaux de Brighton) is a 1908 play by the French writer Tristan Bernard. It is a farce about two twins born in Brighton, who are separated at birth and don't meet again for several decades. It is a loose reworking of the classic play "Menaechmi" by the Roman writer Plautus.
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September (1987 film) September is a 1987 film written and directed by Woody Allen. The film is modeled on Anton Chekhov's play "Uncle Vanya", though the gender roles are often subverted.
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Tsar Fyodor Ioannovich Tsar Fyodor Ioannovich (Russian: Царь Фёдор Иоаннович , old orthography: Царь Ѳедоръ Іоанновичъ) is a 1868 historical drama by Aleksey Konstantinovich Tolstoy. It is the second part of a trilogy that begins with "The Death of Ivan the Terrible" and concludes with "Tsar Boris". All three plays were banned by the censor. "Tsar Fyodor" is written in blank verse and was influenced by the work of William Shakespeare, Casimir Delavigne, and Edward Bulwer-Lytton. It dramatises the story of Feodor I of Russia, whom the play portrays as a good man who is a weak, ineffectual ruler. The trilogy formed the core of Tolstoy's reputation as a writer in the Russia of his day and as a dramatist to this day. It has been considered Tolstoy's masterpiece.
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I Want a Baby I Want a Baby (Russian: Хочу ребёнка ) is a 1926 play by a Russian playwright Sergei Tretyakov.
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Tatiana Repina Tatiana Repina (Russian: Татьяна Репина ) — is a one-act drama play written by Russian writer Anton Chekhov in 1889. It is a sequel of Alexey Suvorin's play "Tatiana Repina", with the same characters. Chekhov's drama was dedicated to Suvorin. Chekhov was friends with him and actively participated in the production of his "Tatyana Repina" play in Moscow.
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Alexander Yuzhin Alexander Ivanovich Yuzhin (1857-1927) was a stage name of the Georgian Prince Sumbatov (Sumbatashvili), who dominated the Malyi Theatre of Moscow at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries. He was best known for the Romantical parts in the dramas by Schiller and Victor Hugo but also penned a number of plays himself. Yuzhin lived on to become one of the first "People's Artists of the Republic" in 1922.
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Swansong (play) Swansong (Russian: Лебединая песня , "Lebedinaya pecnya " ) is an 1887 play by Anton Chekhov, based on his own story "Calchas", concerning an elderly actor.
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The Death of Ivan the Terrible The Death of Ivan the Terrible (Russian: Смерть Иоанна Грозного, "Smert Ioa′nna Gro′znogo" ) is a historical drama by Aleksey Konstantinovich Tolstoy written in 1863 and first published in the January 1866 issue of "Otechestvennye zapiski" magazine. It is the first part of a trilogy that is followed by "Tsar Fiodor Ioannovich" and concludes with "Tsar Boris". All three plays were banned by the censor. It dramatises the story of Ivan IV of Russia and is written in blank verse. Tolstoy was influenced by the work of William Shakespeare in writing the trilogy, which formed the core of his reputation as a writer in the Russia of his day and as a dramatist to this day.
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Kashtanka "Kashtanka" (Russian: Каштанка ) is a 1887 short story by Anton Chekhov.
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Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike is a comedy play written by Christopher Durang. The story revolves around the relationships of three middle-aged single siblings, two of whom live together, and takes place during a visit by the third, Masha, who supports them. They discuss their lives and loves, argue, and Masha threatens to sell the house. Some of the show's elements were derived from works of Anton Chekhov, including several character names, the play's setting in a cherry orchard, and the theme of the possible loss of an ancestral home.
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Pyotr Karatygin Pyotr Andreyevich Karatygin (Russian: Пётр Андреевич Каратыгин , 11 July 1805, Saint Petersburg, Russian Empire, - 6 October 1879, Saint Petersburg, Russian Empire) was a Russian dramatist and actor. The tragic Vasily Karatygin (1802-1853) was his brother.