The year brought radical rethinkings of Chekhov and Beckett, superior Shakespeares and new plays that were daring, engaging and powerfulChekhov wrote so few plays, which are revived so often, that it seemed unlikely there could be new discoveries to be made in his work. However, the strategy of fashioning a trilogy from three early works " Platonov, Ivanov and The Seagull " provided a tremendous and revelatory eight …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:48AM on December 23, 2015