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The plays of Anton Chekhov : translations by Michael Frayn

Title: The plays of Anton Chekhov : translations by Michael Frayn [videorecording] / [Produced by] The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts ; directed by Lawrence Sacharow ; series producer, Alan J. Pally ; [video prod. company] Character Generators, Inc. ; [video producer] Theatre on Film and Tape Archive, Patrick Hoffman, director.
Publication: New York, c2003.

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Description

1 videocassette (VHS) (144 min.) : sd., col. SP; 1/2 in.

Summary

A program devoted to Michael Frayn's translations of several works by Anton Chekhov. Director Lawrence Sacharow introduces the excerpts, which are read by actors in street clothes seated at lecterns.

Subjects

Genre/Form

Drama.
Readings.

Access (note)

Restricted to qualified researchers.

Credits (note)

Stage management by Stephanie DiMaggio, Tara Good, and Brianne Moncrief.

Performer (note)

Introductory remarks: Alan J. Pally.
Joanne Camp, Kevin Geer, Marcia Gay Harden, Olek Krupa, Brian Murray, Ana Reeder, Marian Seldes, and David Strathairn.

Event (note)

Videotaped by The New York Public Library's Theatre on Film and Tape Archive in the Bruno Walter Auditorium, The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, New York, N.Y., March 10, 2003.

Contents

Plays excerpted: Wild honey -- The awl in a sack [short story, A/K/A The Inspector-general] -- The seagull -- Uncle Vanya -- The three sisters -- The cherry orchard.

Call Number

NCOW 270

OCLC

NYPG04-F69

Title

The plays of Anton Chekhov : translations by Michael Frayn [videorecording] / [Produced by] The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts ; directed by Lawrence Sacharow ; series producer, Alan J. Pally ; [video prod. company] Character Generators, Inc. ; [video producer] Theatre on Film and Tape Archive, Patrick Hoffman, director.

Imprint

New York, c2003.

Access

Restricted to qualified researchers.

Credits

Stage management by Stephanie DiMaggio, Tara Good, and Brianne Moncrief.

Performer

Introductory remarks: Alan J. Pally.

Cast

Joanne Camp, Kevin Geer, Marcia Gay Harden, Olek Krupa, Brian Murray, Ana Reeder, Marian Seldes, and David Strathairn.

Event

Videotaped by The New York Public Library's Theatre on Film and Tape Archive in the Bruno Walter Auditorium, The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, New York, N.Y., March 10, 2003.

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Added Author

Sacharow, Larry, director.

Pally, Alan J, producer.

Chekhov, Anton Pavlovich, 1860-1904. Pʹesa bez nazvanʹ︠i︡a. English.

Chekhov, Anton Pavlovich, 1860-1904. Awl in a sack.

Chekhov, Anton Pavlovich, 1860-1904. Chaĭka. English.

Chekhov, Anton Pavlovich, 1860-1904. Diadia Vania. English.

Chekhov, Anton Pavlovich, 1860-1904. Tri sestry. English.

Chekhov, Anton Pavlovich, 1860-1904. Vishnevyĭ sad. English.

Camp, Joanne, actor.

Geer, Kevin, actor.

Harden, Marcia Gay, actor.

Krupa, Olek, actor.

Murray, Brian, 1937-2018, actor.

Reeder, Ana, actor.

Seldes, Marian, actor.

Strathairn, David, actor.

New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, producer.

Character Generators/Video.

Hoffman, Patrick.

New York Public Library for the Performing Arts. Billy Rose Theatre Division. Theatre on Film and Tape Archive.

Research Call Number

NCOW 270

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