![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Why was it that, during roughly the same period, several productions of Chekhov’s major plays were staged throughout Western Europe as well as in the United States of America? The answer would appear to lie in the historical significance of the Russian Revolution which, in philosophical terms, was founded on the notion of a non-tragic universe where human beings could intervene meaningfully in determining their own fate. It is interesting to speculate as to why, in the Soviet Union, there was no major revival of any Chekhov play between Konstantin Stanislavsky’s first productions (staged between 18) and Vladimir Nemirovich-Danchenko’s production of Three Sisters (‘Tri sestry’ staged in 1940 - at a time when the Moscow Art Theatre was being officially promulgated as a model of ‘socialist-realist’ and ‘anti-formalist’ theatrical practice. ![]()
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