Hampstead theatre, LondonWilliam Boyd has fused two Chekhov stories from the 1890s, A Visit to Friends and My Life, to create a new play. The result is inevitably something of a hybrid: neither pure Boyd nor pure Chekhov. But it works because it deals with eternal Russian themes " and because it is performed with rare musical precision.Boyd's chosen stories neatly intersect. In one, a charismatic Moscow law…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:27PM on March 8, 2013