Starring David Warner, Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio
This new studio production of Chekhov's wistful masterpiece stars Warner as the retired professor whose return, with his beautiful young wife, to the country estate left by his deceased first wife sets in motion a typically Chekhovian comic tragedy of lost hopes, stifled passions and blighted ideals. It is a new adaptation by American playwright David Mamet (American Buffalo, Glengarry Glen Ross) is directed by Gregory Mosher, who was responsible for the Broadway and National Theatre productions of Mamet's Speed-the-Plow.
TELETEXT SUBTITLES: page 888
DRAMA: page 4