Plays

At a time when the Russian theatre was dominated by formulaic melodramas and farces, Chekhov created a new sort of drama that laid bare the everyday lives, loves and yearnings of ordinary people. Ivanov depicts a man stifled by inactivity and lost idealism, and The Seagull contrasts a young man''s selfish romanticism with the stoicism of a woman cruelly abandoned by her lover. With ''the scenes fr...