The Seagull

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

Seven short plays, including the marriage proposal that collapses into an argument about land and the widow ambushed by a creditor. This is the comic side of his writing.

Anton Chekhov