Anton chehkov, a physician who wrote short stories and plays, which depicted people as neither heroic nor foolish. Indeed, chehkovs plays seemed plotless to viewers expecting a conventional, single action. Instead, emphasis is on people and atmosphere in many small stories. In his plays as in real life, theres not necessarily one outstanding moment of supreme significance, nothing compared, for instance, to the moment when the traditional hero learns some overwhelming truth about the universe. Some of chehkovs people achieve understanding, others remain trapped in self delusion. There are important events, but they take place offstage. There are extramarital affairs, a fatal duel, a devastating fire. The sensational is avoided in favor of personal reflection. People rarely confront each other or respond directly. In chehkov, the people and their individual reactions to life are most important as in the Three Sisters, which represents a break with the more artificial plays of the time.
Triumphant in the end. But heroes and villains are out of place in more scientific observation. This ability to observe in an impartial way is characteristic of an important russian playwright of the 19th century, anton chehkov, a physician who wrote short stories and plays, which depicted people as neither heroic nor foolish. Indeed, chehkovs plays seemed plotless to viewers expecting a conventional, single action. Instead, emphasis is on people and atmosphere in many small stories. In his plays as in real life, theres not necessarily one outstanding moment of supreme significance, nothing compared, for instance, to the moment when the traditional hero learns some overwhelming truth about the universe. Some of chehkovs people achieve understanding, others remain trapped in self delusion. There are important events, but they take place offstage. There are extramarital affairs, a fatal duel, a devastating fire. The sensational is avoided in favor of personal reflection. People rarely co
This ability to observe in an impartial way is characteristic of an important russian playwright of the 19th century, anton chehkov, a physician who wrote short stories and plays, which depicted people as neither heroic nor foolish. Indeed, chehkovs plays seemed plotless to viewers expecting a conventional, single action. Instead, emphasis is on people and atmosphere in many small stories. In his plays as in real life, theres not necessarily one outstanding moment of supreme significance, nothing compared, for instance, to the moment when the traditional hero learns some overwhelming truth about the universe. Some of chehkovs people achieve understanding, others remain trapped in self delusion. There are important events, but they take place offstage. There are extramarital affairs, a fatal duel, a devastating fire. The sensational is avoided in favor of personal reflection. People rarely confront each other or respond directly. In chehkov, the people and their individual reactions to
Feeling that Chekhov was being somewhat unfair to the women, Laura Michele Erle and Samantha Haviland, both playwrights and actors, decided to take a new look at the story from
Feeling that Chekhov was being somewhat unfair to the women, Laura Michele Erle and Samantha Haviland, both playwrights and actors, decided to take a new look at the story from