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Swan Song

on BBC Radio 3

by ANTON CHEKHOV translated by NICHOLAS BETHELL
It is late at night on the stage ot a provincial theatre: the performance has finished and the audience long gone home ... Chekhov's one-act play was written in 1886 as a virtuoso piece for a great actor, and so it still is. This production was recorded in 1965, only a year before the death of its star.
Directed by JOHN TYDEMAN. mono (K)

Contributors

Unknown:
Anton Chekhov
Translated By:
Nicholas Bethell
Directed By:
John Tydeman.
The Actor:
Wilfrid Lawson
Nikita Ivanych, the prompter:
John Ruddock

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