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Michael Frayn, adapted from an original play by Anton Chekhov Full Length, Farce12m, 6f 4 sets. Frayn has transformed the young Chekhov's wild and rambling epic Platonov into a glorious and intriguing comic masterpiece that premiered at the National Theatre of Britian. "The triumph of Frayn's translation/adaptation is to have taken the bones of this immature work and molded it to offer us a tantalizing glimpse of the genius to come."-London City Limits "The world can rejoice in an "new' play by Chekhov...a sprawling study of a provincial Don Juan whose indiscriminate love of women leads not only to their downfall but to his own."-Sunday Express, London "Brilliant."-London Guardian "One of the best evenings in the theater that Broadway has given us over the past few years."-New York Post Also available in Michael Frayn: Plays Vol. 2 FEE: $100 per performance. Other Michael Frayn titles available from Samuel French include:
Afterlife Alarms and Excursions Alphabetical Order Audience Balmoral Benefactors Black and Silver Chinamen Clouds Copenhagen Democracy Donkeys' Years Exchange Here Listen to This Make and Break Mr. Foot The New Quixote Noises Off Now You Know The Sea Gull (trans.) Uncle Vanya (trans.)
Collections
Chekhov: Plays (trans.) Michael Frayn: Plays, Vol. 2 The Sneeze (Collected Works) The Two of Us
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