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There are many photographs of Chekhov, but I’ve never come across this one before.

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A taster:
‘Do you go into Wexford much, Granny?’ Helen asked as her grandmother sat down at the kitchen table.
‘Oh, I go in once a week,’ she said and sipped her tea.
‘How do you get in?’ Helen asked.
‘This only started last year when I sold the sites,’ her grandmother said, moving over to sit at the [...]

York Theatre Royal has been hosting the English Touring Theatre’s production of Uncle Vanya, directed by Peter Hall, for the past few days. We were, luckily, at the matinee on Saturday afternoon.
This is not a play I know very well, though I love Chekhov’s insight into the shared deep place which is simultaneously the seat [...]

Jonathan Miller makes his directorial return to British theatre with a new production of Chekhov’s The Cherry Orchard, and we were lucky enough to have front row seats for the performance in Sheffield’s Crucible Theatre last night.
It is interesting to note that Miller decided to use a new translation of the play, which is the [...]