Anton Chekhov's Sakhalin Island to be brought to life on stage by British neuroscientist
Anton Chekhov is remembered for his great works of fiction and " after Shakespeare " is the second most performed playwright in history. But he was also a qualified doctor who made a curious and perilous trip in 1890 to a remote penal colony in Tsarist Russia where he tried to write a medical thesis on the lives of its abject prisoners.
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