Are You There, Crocodile?: Inventing Anton Chekhov

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Bloomsbury Academic, Jan 9, 2003 - Drama - 218 pages
"Michael Pennington retraces his ten-year search via Moscow, Siberia and London for identification with the elusive Chekhov - a journey that offers insight into the Russia in which the playwright and his contemporaries lived. Tolstoy, Gorky and Dostoyevsky all make their appearances, along with the artist Levitan and members of Chekhov's family; his wife and leading actress Olga Knipper, his sister and brothers, his parents Pavel and Evgenia, and even his dog Quinine. We follow the opening of 'Anton Chekhov' at the National Theatre in London and its subsequent life on tour, television and radio, as actor and subject fall uncannily into step with each other. Includes the complete text of 'Anton Chekhov' by Michael Pennington, as performed in its recent revivals at the Old Vic and Chichester Festival Theatre."--Book jacket.

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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
8
SEVERAL HUNDREDWEIGHT OF LOVE
29
SIBERIA
48
Copyright

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Michael Pennington has been a lead actor with the RSC, RNT and the Peter Hall Company. He was Joint Artistic Director of the English Shakespeare Company and has been a constant fixture on television and radio dramas. He has received Olivier Award nominations for roles in 'Romeo & Juliet', 'Strider' and 'Richard II', and a Sony Radio Award Nomination for his role in 'Jude the Obscure'. His solo show 'Anton Chekhov' has played at the National Theatre, the Old Vic, numerous festivals abroad, on radio and has been subject of a television documentary.

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