| Title:
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IVANOV
A PLAY IN FOUR ACTS |
| By: |
Anton Chekhov, David Hare (Editor) |
| Format: |
Paperback |
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£11.99 |
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| ISBN 10: |
0413710505 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780413710505 |
| Publisher: |
BLOOMSBURY PUBLISHING PLC |
| Pub. date: |
17 March, 1997 |
| Series: |
Modern Plays |
| Pages: |
112 |
| Description: |
Chekhov's first, but least known, major play in a new version from David Hare. The play focuses on a disillusioned Ivanov who no longer loves his adoring ailing wife, and begins a passionate affair with the daughter of his best friend. |
| Synopsis: |
This adaptation by David Hare premiered at the Almeida Theatre, London in 1997 starring Ralph Fiennes This is a drama of a Russian landowner's half-farcical, half serious personal crisis as he plummets fast into domestic and philosophical chaos. The central scene concerns a debate between the landowner and the young doctor about honesty. The latter thinks that honesty is to do with blurting out offensive truths, whilst the former insists that no-one can acquire honesty unless they have the self knowledge to examine their own motives. By turns despairing and passionate, this play offers an insight into a robust young writer, exploring themes that were to interest him in his later plays. |
| Publication: |
UK |
| Imprint: |
Methuen Drama |
| Returns: |
Returnable |