Lawrence and Chekhov: reimagined or violated?
New projects at the National Theatre and Chichester Festival theatre substantially rework the material of two great authors, raising questions of fidelity and freedomIf there is an afterlife and theatre reviews are published there, the spirits of Anton Chekhov and DH Lawrence will be bemused to read about productions of plays they didn't know they'd written.At the National Theatre, director Marianne Elliott, with Ben…