CHEKHOV, Anton. [Alan Scheinder].
The Cherry Orchard.
New York: Theatre Arts Books , 1963.
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Sir John Gielgud’s Version of Chekhov’s The Cherry Orchard; From the Library of Director Alan Schneider
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.
The Cherry Orchard, Anton Chekhov’s final play, premiered at the Moscow Art Theatre in January 1904 under the direction of Konstantin Stanislavski only months before the playwright’s death, and stands with The Seagull, Uncle Vanya and Three Sisters among the foundational works of the modern stage. Sir John Gielgud, one of the supreme Chekhov interpreters of the English-speaking theater, prepared his acting version for the 1961 Royal Shakespeare Company production in which he appeared as Gaev.
The Cherry Orchard.
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