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The Seagull (Stage Edition Series)

Author : Anton Chekhov
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2010-07-12
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780393338980

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“Senelick’s accomplishment is astounding.”—Library Journal Anton Chekhov is a unique force in modern drama, his works cherished for their brilliant wit and insight into the human condition. In this stunning new translation of one of Chekhov’s most popular and beloved plays, Laurence Senelick presents a fresh perspective on the master playwright and his groundbreaking dramas. He brings this timeless trial of art and love to life as memorable characters have clashing desires and lose balance in the shifting eruptions of society and a modernizing Russia. Supplementing the play is an account of Chekhov’s life; a note on the translation; an introduction to the work; and variant lines, often removed due to government censorship, which illuminate the context in which they were written. This edition is the perfect guide to enriching our understanding of this great dramatist or to staging a production.

The Seagull (Stage Edition Series)

Author : Anton Chekhov
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 177 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2010-07-12
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780393338171

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"Senelick's accomplishment is astounding."--Library Journal

Three Sisters (Stage Edition Series)

Author : Anton Chekhov
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2010-07-12
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780393339475

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Three Sisters (Stage Edition Series) by Anton Chekhov Pdf

“Senelick’s accomplishment is astounding.”—Library Journal Anton Chekhov is a unique force in modern drama, his works cherished for their brilliant wit and insight into the human condition. In this stunning new translation of one of Chekhov’s most popular and beloved plays, Laurence Senelick presents a fresh perspective on the master playwright and his groundbreaking dramas. He brings this timeless trial of art and love to life as memorable characters have clashing desires and lose balance in the shifting eruptions of society and a modernizing Russia. Supplementing the play is an account of Chekhov’s life; a note on the translation; an introduction to the work; and variant lines, often removed due to government censorship, which illuminate the context in which they were written. This edition is the perfect guide to enriching our understanding of this great dramatist or to staging a production.

The Seagull

Author : Anton Chekhov
Publisher : Theatre Communications Group
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2017-10-30
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781559368711

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“Pevear and Volokhonsky are at once scrupulous translators and vivid stylists of English.” —James Wood, New Yorker The Seagull, in this new translation for TCG’s Russian Drama Series, includes lines and variants found in Chekhov’s final version of the play, but omitted from the script for the original performance at the Moscow Art Theatre in 1898, which went on to become the standard printed version. The restored text, a product of the continuing collaboration of playwright Richard Nelson and translators Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky, provides valuable insight into Chekhov’s intentions in his groundbreaking play. Richard Nelson’s many plays include The Apple Family: Scenes from Life in the Country (That Hopey Changey Thing, Sweet and Sad, Sorry, Regular Singing); The Gabriels: Election Year in the Life of One Family (Hungry, What Did You Expect?, Women of a Certain Age); Nikolai and the Others; Goodnight Children Everywhere (Olivier Award for Best Play); Franny’s Way; Some Americans Abroad; Frank’s Home; Two Shakespearean Actors and James Joyce’s The Dead (with Shaun Davey; Tony Award for Best Book of a Musical). Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky have translated the works of Leo Tolstoy, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Nikolai Gogol, Anton Chekhov, Boris Pasternak and Mikhail Bulgakov. Their translations of The Brothers Karamazov and Anna Karenina won the PEN Translation Prize in 1991 and 2002, respectively. Pevear, a native of Boston, and Volokhonsky, of St. Petersburg, are married and live in France.

The Seagull

Author : Anton Chekhov
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 112 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2012-11-02
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781849437608

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“We need the theatre, couldn’t, couldn’t do without it. Could we?” A successful actress visits her brother’s isolated estate far from the city, throwing the frustrated residents unfulfilled ambitions into sharp relief. As her son attempts to impress with a self-penned play, putting much more than his pride at stake, others dream of fame, love and the ability to change their past. Chekhov’s darkly comic masterpiece is reignited for the 21st century by one of the most exciting new voices in British Theatre, Anya Reiss, Winner of the Most Promising Playwright at both the Evening Standard and Critics’ Circle awards.

The Cherry Orchard (Stage Edition Series)

Author : Anton Chekhov
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2010-07-12
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780393339116

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The Cherry Orchard (Stage Edition Series) by Anton Chekhov Pdf

“Senelick’s accomplishment is astounding.”—Library Journal Anton Chekhov is a unique force in modern drama, his works cherished for their brilliant wit and insight into the human condition. In this stunning new translation of one of Chekhov’s most popular and beloved plays, Laurence Senelick presents a fresh perspective on the master playwright and his groundbreaking dramas. He brings this timeless trial of art and love to life as memorable characters have clashing desires and lose balance in the shifting eruptions of society and a modernizing Russia. Supplementing the play is an account of Chekhov’s life; a note on the translation; an introduction to the work; and variant lines, often removed due to government censorship, which illuminate the context in which they were written. This edition is the perfect guide to enriching our understanding of this great dramatist or to staging a production.

The Sea-Gull

Author : Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2022-01-03
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9355844948

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The Sea-Gull by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov Pdf

The Seagull is a play by Russian dramatist Anton Chekhov, written in 1895 and first produced in 1896. The Seagull is generally considered to be the first of his four major plays. If there is an overriding theme in The Seagull, it is that humankind's greatest enemy is time, the relentless enemy of passion and hope. It is a play of hopelessly misplaced love or desire. Many of the characters want love from others who are either indifferent or have emotional. The Seagull, drama in four acts by Anton Chekhov, performed in 1896 and published in Russian the following year as Chayka. A revised edition was published in 1904. The play deals with lost opportunities and the clash between generations.

Chekhov for the Stage

Author : Anton Chekhov
Publisher : Northwestern University Press
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1992-12-09
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0810110482

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Chekhov for the Stage by Anton Chekhov Pdf

While the influence of Chekhov in modern theater worldwide, and especially in America, has been immense, translations into English have tended to be too literary and have not communicated the full emotional power and precise attention to detail of Chekhov's Russian. Milton Ehre began translating Chekhov's plays to provide professional theaters with performance texts that capture the feel and rhythms of spoken, rather than written, language. Chekhov for the Stage is the first publication of his revised versions of The Three Sisters, Uncle Vanya, The Cherry Orchard, and The Sea Gull. Ehre's sensitive renderings of these classics make this volume the translation of choice for performers and directors, teachers, and the general reading public.

The Seagull

Author : Christopher Hampton
Publisher : Dramatists Play Service, Inc.
Page : 68 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0822223457

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THE STORY: THE SEAGULL is one of the great plays about writing. It superbly captures the struggle for new forms, the frustrations and fulfillments of putting words on a page. Chekhov, in his first major play, stages a vital argument about the theat

Young Chekhov

Author : Anton Chekhov
Publisher : Faber & Faber
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2015-09-29
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780571313037

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Young Chekhov by Anton Chekhov Pdf

Young Chekhov contains a trilogy of plays by the Russian writer Anton Chekhov, written as he emerged as the greatest playwright of the late nineteenth century. The three works, Platanov, Ivanov and The Seagull, in contemporary adaptations by David Hare, will be staged at the Chichester Festival Theatre in the summer of 2015.

Stupid Fucking Bird

Author : Aaron Posner
Publisher : Dramatists Play Service, Inc.
Page : 80 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2017-03-16
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780822232506

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Stupid Fucking Bird by Aaron Posner Pdf

An aspiring young director rampages against the art created by his mother’s generation. A nubile young actress wrestles with an aging Hollywood star for the affections of a renowned novelist. And everyone discovers just how disappointing love, art, and growing up can be. In this irreverent, contemporary, and very funny remix of Chekhov’s The Seagull, Aaron Posner stages a timeless battle between young and old, past and present, in search of the true meaning of it all. Original songs composed by James Sugg draw the famously subtextual inner thoughts of Chekhov’s characters explicitly to the surface. STUPID FUCKING BIRD will tickle, tantalize, and incite you to consider how art, love, and revolution fuel your own pursuit of happiness.

Adapting Translation for the Stage

Author : Geraldine Brodie,Emma Cole
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2017-07-06
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781315436791

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Adapting Translation for the Stage by Geraldine Brodie,Emma Cole Pdf

Translating for performance is a difficult – and hotly contested – activity. Adapting Translation for the Stage presents a sustained dialogue between scholars, actors, directors, writers, and those working across these boundaries, exploring common themes and issues encountered when writing, staging, and researching translated works. It is organised into four parts, each reflecting on a theatrical genre where translation is regularly practised: The Role of Translation in Rewriting Naturalist Theatre Adapting Classical Drama at the Turn of the Twenty-First Century Translocating Political Activism in Contemporary Theatre Modernist Narratives of Translation in Performance A range of case studies from the National Theatre’s Medea to The Gate Theatre’s Dances of Death and Emily Mann’s The House of Bernarda Alba shed new light on the creative processes inherent in translating for the theatre, destabilising the literal/performable binary to suggest that adaptation and translation can – and do – coexist on stage. Chronicling the many possible intersections between translation theory and practice, Adapting Translation for the Stage offers a unique exploration of the processes of translating, adapting, and relocating work for the theatre.

Jonathan Livingston Seagull

Author : Richard Bach
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 104 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1970-09
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780684846842

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Jonathan Livingston Seagull by Richard Bach Pdf

Allegory about a sea gull who seeks to attain perfect flight. Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.

The Sea Gull

Author : Anton Chekhov
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 66 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2011-10-20
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780486406565

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The Sea Gull by Anton Chekhov Pdf

Great Russian playwright's tragic masterpiece portrays the inner anguish of a tormented artist who burns with unrequited love. Acclaimed as a prototype of 20th-century drama, it brilliantly reveals the universal tragedy of ruined hopes and dreams.

Europe on Stage

Author : Gunilla Anderman
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 570 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2017-03-22
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781783192298

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Europe on Stage by Gunilla Anderman Pdf

For any play originating in a different culture and society to be favourably received in English translation, timing and other factors of reception are often as important as the purely linguistic aspects. This book focuses on the problems of reception and translation into English encountered by European playwrights now regularly staged at British theatres, such as Ibsen, Strindberg, Chekhov, Brecht, Anouilh, Lorca and Pirandello, among others. Introduced by discussions highlighting different approaches to translation in general and the difficulties inherent in the translation of drama in particular, the book concludes by looking at what is lost in translation and the means by which adaptions and new versions may help to restore the balance.