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Chekhov's Three Sisters and Woolf's Orlando:, two renderings for the stage

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Chekhov's Three Sisters and Woolf's Orlando:, two renderings for the stage

Language

eng

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no index present

Literary Form

fiction

Main title

Chekhov's Three Sisters and Woolf's Orlando:

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dictionaries

Sub title

two renderings for the stage

Summary

In her stage adaptation of Virginia Woolf's gender-bending, period-hopping novel, award-winning playwright Sarah Ruhl "is her usual unfailingly elegant, unbeatably witty self, cleverly braiding her own brand-name wit with Woolf's" (New York ) magazine. Preserving Woolf's vital ideas and lyrical tone, Ruhl brings to the stage the life of an Elizabethan nobleman who's magically transformed into an immortal woman. In her fresh translation of Three Sisters, the Anton Chekhov classic of ennui and frustration, Ruhl employs her signature lyricism and elegant understanding of intimacy to reveal the discontent felt by fretful Olga, unhappy Masha, and idealistic Irina as they long to leave rural Russia for the ever-alluring Moscow

Target audience

adult

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