this collection contains three full-length plays:
THE WOOD DEMON
THE SEAGULL
THREE SISTERS
Chekhov on THE WOOD DEMON:
“In the play I portray a disgusting, selfish, provincial fellow who
for twenty years has been reading works on art but understanding nothing about
the subject—a man who brings despondency and gloom to all those near him, who
is not accessible to laughter and music—and who, despite all this, is
undoubtedly happy.”
Chekhov on THE SEAGULL:
“It's a comedy with three female and six male roles, four acts, a
landscape (view of a lake), lots of talk of literature, little action and 180
lbs of love.”
Chekhov on THREE SISTERS:
“But what I have written is a farce.”
Stanislavsky on THREE SISTERS:
“[Chekhov] was afraid of provincial life being exaggerated and
caricatured, of his officers being turned into the usual heel-clickers with
jingling spurs. He wanted us to play the parts of simple, charming, decent
people in ‘untheatrical’ uniforms which looked as if they'd actually been worn.”
PLAYS BY ANTON CHEKHOV/RICHARD NELSON
I S B N: 0-88145-209-2, $16.95