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In 1997, David Hare adapted the little-known play, Ivanov, and revealed the young Anton Chekhov as a markedly different writer from the one English-speaking audiences were familiar with. Now he has produced a streamlined new version of Chekhov's freshman drama Platonov--an abandoned seven-hour manuscript in which Chekhov recasts Don Juan as a Russian schoolmaster.
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In 1997, David Hare adapted the little-known play, Ivanov, and revealed the young Anton Chekhov as a markedly different writer from the one English-speaking audiences were familiar with. Now he has produced a streamlined new version of Chekhov's freshman drama Platonov--an abandoned seven-hour manuscript in which Chekhov recasts Don Juan as a Russian schoolmaster.In 1997, David Hare adapted the little-known play, Ivanov, and revealed the young Anton Chekhov as a markedly different writer from the one English-speaking audiences were familiar with. Now he has produced a streamlined new version of Chekhov's freshman drama Platonov--an abandoned seven-hour manuscript in which Chekhov recasts Don Juan as a Russian schoolmaster.
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