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IVANOV
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| By: |
David Hare (Editor), Anton Chekhov, David Hare |
| Format: |
Electronic book text |
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£10.99 |
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| ISBN 10: |
1408177730 |
| ISBN 13: |
9781408177730 |
| Publisher: |
BLOOMSBURY PUBLISHING PLC |
| Pub. date: |
3 February, 2014 |
| 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 FiennesThis 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: |
Non-returnable |