 IVANOV
by Anton Chekhov
translated by Paul Schmidt
directed by Yuri Yeremin
set design by Scott Bradley
costume design by Catherine Zuber
lighting design by John Ambrosone
sound design by Christopher
Walker
stage managed by Chris De
Camillis
Performed in repertory with The Idiots Karamazov
at the Loeb Drama
Center,
November 26, 1999 - January 23, 2000
[Cast] [Synopsis]
[Reading_List]
[Related Links]
A dazzling portrait of a restless man.
Treading a fine line between broad comedy and
tragic melodrama, Ivanov is the most
accessible of Chekhov's plays. Written when Chekhov
was only twenty-seven, Ivanov is a dazzling
portrait of a man too intelligent and too bored to
endure his provincial life. The brilliant, restless
Nikolai Ivanov is plagued with guilt and
frustration when he finds himself drawn to a
beautiful young girl who threatens to destroy the
moral foundations of his world. Directed by Yuri
Yeremin, Artistic Director of the Pushkin Theatre.
Running time is approximately
two and a half hours, including one intermission.
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Cast
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Nikolái Ivánov, a landowner
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... Arliss Howard
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Anna, his wife, born Sarah Abramson
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... Debra Winger
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Shabélsky, his uncle
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... Alvin Epstein
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Bórkin, manager of his estate
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... Will LeBow
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Lébedev, a landowner
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... Jeremy Geidt
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Zinaida, his wife
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... Karen MacDonald
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Sasha, their daughter
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... Kristin Proctor
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Lvov, a doctor
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... Benjamin Evett
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Babákina, a rich widow
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... Paula Plum
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Kósykh, a guest of Lébedev
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... Evan Zes
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Doodkin, a guest of Lébedev
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... William Church
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Boodkin, a guest of Lébedev
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... Matthew Francis
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Avdótya, a guest of Lébedev
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... Larisa Linetskaia
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Gavrila, Lébedev's servant
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... Robert Saxner
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Synopsis
Brilliant, restless Nikolai Ivanov, a rural landowner, is
increasingly exasperated with his provincial life, the
stupidity of his colleagues and neighbors, and his wife,
Anna, a converted Jew who is slowly dying of tuberculosis.
When Lvov, Anna's doctor, accuses Ivanov of worsening his
wife's condition with his angry temper and periods of
depression, the enraged Ivanov leaves for a dazzling party
at the Lebedev estate, where he finds companionship, gossip,
and Sasha Lebedev, a romantic young girl who quickly falls
in love with him. Anna secretly follows Ivanov to the party,
where she surprises her husband and Sasha in an embrace.
Caught between mistress and dying wife, Ivanov is sucked
into an ever-deepening gloom of introspection that leads to
inevitable tragedy.
Reading List
- The Plays of Anton Chekhov, by Anton Chekhov, Paul
Schmidt (translator), Harper Collins, $30.00
includes the translation of Ivanov
used in this production
- Also by Anton Chekhov:
- Five Plays: Ivanov, The Seagull, Uncle Vanya, Three
Sisters, and the Cherry Orchard, Anvil Press Poetry,
$4.95
- Anton Chekhov's Short Stories, W.W. Norton &
Co., $11.25
- Plays: Ivanov, the Seagull, Uncle Vania, Three Sisters,
the Cherry Orchard, The Bear, The Proposal, a Jubilee,
Penguin Books, $8.95
- Chekhov: 'the Vaudevilles' and Other Short Works,
Carol Rocamora (translator), Smith & Kraus, $19.95
- My Life and Other Stories, Everyman's Library,
$20.00
- Life and Letters of Anton Chekhov, Ayer Co. Publishing,
$29.95
- More Anton Checkhov scripts and rights information can
be found on the Dramatists
Play Service web site
- Anton Chekhov: A Life, by Donald Rayfield, Henry
Holt & Co., Inc., $35.00
- Chekhov: The Hidden Ground: A Biography, by Philip
Callow, New Amsterdam Books, $30.00
- Chekhov's Plays: An Opening into Eternity, by Richard
Gilman, Yale, $17.00
-
The Chekhov Theatre: A Century of Plays in Performance,
by Laurence Senelick, Cambridge University Press, $85.00
- Moscow Art Theatre Letters, by Jean Benedetti (editor),
Theatre Arts Books, $39.95
- Black Snow, by Mikhail Bulakov, Michael Glenny (translator),
Harvill Press, $11.00
- Hamlet,
by William Shakespeare
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Related Links
- Ivanov press coverage:
- From A.R.T. News:
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