Swan Theatre, Stratford-Upon-Avon
Tamara Harvey’s production of Chekhov’s final play can seem woolly in meaning and the soft-edged tone mutes its force
Laura Wade’s reworking of Anton Chekhov’s final, …
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‘Bored? You’re never good enough to get bored!’ Oscar-winner Helen Hunt on great roles, unruly audiences and her RSC debut ⊕⊕
The formidable actor talks about the challenge of finding meaty characters, tough times in the US – and co-starring with her dad’s hero Kenneth Branagh in The Cherry Orchard
It’s lunchtime in Stratfor…
31 days ago
I’ve seen Chekhov’s Cherry Orchard 20 times – and it blossoms when tended by the British | Michael Billington ⊕
Helen Hunt and Kristin Scott Thomas are leading revivals of the Russian classic whose blend of comedy and tragedy is baked into our own dramatic heritage
What kind of play is The Cherry Orchard? As a …
43 days ago
Ruth Ozeki: ‘All my books are an attempt to recreate Charlotte’s Web’ ⊕
The US author, film-maker and Zen Buddhist priest on smart young girls, the difference between irony and cynicism, and working her way through 13 volumes of Chekhov
My earliest reading memory
I was r…
49 days ago
What links champagne, Mozart and veal pie? The Saturday quiz ⊕⊕
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From the ‘Intransigents’ to Simple Comforts and Cookery Bible, test your knowledge with the Saturday quiz
1 What began to tilt in 1178?
2 Which deep-sea fish attracts prey with a glowing lure called an…
64 days ago
The Dreamed Adventure review – beautiful but opaque Bulgarian tale of digging up the past ⊕
Cannes film festival: Valeska Grisebach’s complex drama tracks an archaeologist whose mountain dig is interrupted by an old friend with rather dirtier hands
The digging up of the past – and the hiding…
75 days ago
Michael Pennington was an actor of astonishing range, a wise writer and witty company ⊕⊕
Over his kaleidoscopic career, the great Shakespearean was a stalwart of the RSC, co-founded a ‘rock’n’roll’ theatre company and excelled at Chekhov and Pinter
Michael Pennington was what Richard II –…
5 months ago
‘He loved showing his bum. Loved it’: the subversive genius of Kenneth Williams ⊕⊕
The actor, comedian and raconteur, who would have turned 100 on Sunday, could play humble or haughty, cheeky or Chekhov – but always stole the show
When standup comic Tom Allen received Attitude magaz…
6 months ago
Lynley review – consider it the ultimate undemanding telly ⊕
Sex tapes, pottery shards, a man biffed over the head on his private island … this crime drama based on Elizabeth George’s hit novels fires off every Chekhov’s gun imaginable. Plus it has an unusuall…
8 months ago
‘He was just trying to earn a few kopecks’: how newly translated stories reveal Chekhov’s silly side ⊕
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With daft jokes and experimental wordplay, the first comprehensive translations of his lesser-known stories show Anton Chekhov in a new light
Few writers are as universally admired as Chekhov. As Book…