THE PRESENT " Chekhov with a down under twist
Some prefer their Chekhov straight up or neat as has been the traditional way of performing his classic tragi-comedies in the past. Not so for Andrew Upton who has taken on Chekhov's very early and lengthy draft of a play called Platonov " fiddling around with it, updating it to a post-perestroika Russia (mid 1990's) […]