Anton Chekhov: the young pretender by Jonathan Kent

In Chekhov's early plays you can chart the birth of 20th-century theatre. As a new season opens at the National Theatre, director Jonathan Kent explores the evolution of a genius Portmanteau seasons often seem to me more of an exercise in marketing than they are in art. "Thank God," we used to say, when I ran a theatre, "we can call it the French Season." Or the Father and Son Season. Or whatever tenuous link we coul…

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