Anya Reiss overlooks the wider context in her vivid reimagining of Chekhov at the LowryAnton Chekhov's plays are sometimes treated with an over-earnestness that turns them into museum pieces, subtexts conveyed through overlong, meaningful silences. Not here. Anya Reiss's 2012 version of The Seagull transposes this 1895 play from provincial Russia to contemporary Britain. Her language is clear, lively and refreshingly…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:06PM on March 1, 2014