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A Boring Story by ANTON CHEKHOV : adaptation by TONY GOULD from the story translated by DAVID magarshack Erie Portman as an eminent professor, Nikolai Stepanych
Jane Asher as his ward Katya, a young actress
Wolfe Morris as his colleague, Mikhail Fyodorovich
Themes and characters which recur in the later plays originate in this story: an old man's painful indifference of the soul, a young girl's search for love, lives passing each other by. Music selected and played by VIOLA TUNNARD
Producer B. B. FORTUIN

Contributors

Story By:
Anton Chekhov
Unknown:
Tony Gould
Unknown:
Erie Portman
Unknown:
Nikolai Stepanych
Unknown:
Jane Asher
Unknown:
Wolfe Morris
Unknown:
Mikhail Fyodorovich
Producer:
B. B. Fortuin
Source: Radio Times

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