Five Major Plays

The play that failed on its opening night and two years later made the Moscow Art Theatre. Four acts of writers and actors circling ambition, and each other.

Anton Chekhov

Four acts on a country estate where a retired professor's arrival exposes the years his relatives wasted supporting him.

Anton Chekhov

Three sisters stranded in a provincial town keep promising themselves Moscow. Four acts on the distance between a plan and a life.

Anton Chekhov

His last play, in which a family talks its way through the sale of the estate it can no longer afford to keep. Comedy and loss in the same breath.

Anton Chekhov

The early full length play about a landowner sinking under debt, boredom and a marriage he no longer wants. Useful for seeing the method before it matured.

Anton Chekhov