Young Chekhov Av Anton Chekhov

<p>Anton Chekhov is one of the undisputed masters of world drama. He is usually thought to hide himself behind his characters and stories, keeping his own personality well off-stage. But when he was young he wrote three plays - <b>Platonov</b>, <b>Ivanov</b> and <b>The Seagull</b><i> -</i> which, with their thrilling sunbursts of youthful anger and romanticism, reveal a very different playwright from the one known by his mature, more familiar work.<br><br><br><b>Young Chekhov</b> brings these three blazing dramas together in versions by internationally acclaimed dramatist David Hare, offering the chance to explore the birth of a revolutionary dramatic voice. The plays show a writer freeing himself from the constraints of nineteenth-century melodrama and herald the shift into the twentieth century, and the birth of the modern stage.<br><br><br>The <b>Young Chekhov</b> season premiered at the Chichester Festival Theatre in the autumn of 2015.</p>