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  Sir John Gielgud’s Version of Chekhov’s The Cherry Orchard; From the Library of Director Alan Schneider

  CHEKHOV, Anton. [Alan Scheinder].

  The Cherry Orchard.

  New York: Theatre Arts Books, 1963.

  Sir John Gielgud’s celebrated acting version of Chekhov’s final masterpiece, published in New York in 1963. Octavo, original pictorial boards. From the library of the director Alan Schneider with his ownership signature to the front free endpaper. Alan Schneider was among the foremost American directors of his generation and the great champion of the postwar stage in the United States: he directed the American premiere of Beckett’s Waiting for Godot in 1956 and remained Beckett’s preferred American director, staged the United States premieres of Pinter’s plays from the 1962 off-Broadway double bill of The Dumb Waiter and The Collection through the Broadway premiere of The Birthday Party in 1967, and won the 1963 Tony Award for Best Direction for the original production of Albee’s Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? In good condition. A desirable copy from the working library of one of the great directors of the American theater.

  Price: $300.00     Item Number: 152184

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