Young Chekhov: The Birth of a Genius review " masterly depiction of drama's evolution
Chichester Festival theatreSeeing Platonov, Ivanov and The Seagull in a single day unforgettably charts Chekhov's progress from farce to melodrama to a new symphonic realism Sir David Hare has long cherished the dream of charting Chekhov's progress by bringing together three of his earliest plays: Platonov (1880), Ivanov (1887) and The Seagull (1896). Seen in a single day, Jonathan Kent's masterly productions bring o…