by Anton Chekhov
Adapted for broadcasting by Cynitihia Pughe from the translation by Constance Garnett Characters in order of speaking!
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Cicely Hoye (piano)
Eleanor Warren (cello)
Alexis Chesnakov (guitar)
Produced by Mary Hope Allen
Chekhov was twenty-seven when he wrote Ivanov. He had written several other plays, but Ivanov was the first to be performed. He wrote it in the autumn of 1887 at the request of Fyodor Korsh, a Moscow theatrical manager. T'he subject occurred to Chekhov while going to bed one night, and he finished its first version (altogether seven versions of the play are extant) in ten days. It was first performed at Korsh's Theatre on November 19, 1887.
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