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Platonov and Anton Chekhov's Proto-Grunge Philosophy by HowlRound

By Holly L. Derr. Before they do their own fair share of shooting, the characters in Anton Chekhov's unfinished play "Platonov" (1878), an early dramatic work written while he was a schoolboy, say much the same thing"at least they do in Jay Scheib's adaptation titled "Platonov, or The Disinherited", which recently ran at the La Jolla Playhouse Without Walls Festival. Chekhov never saw a production of the play, but it…

SOURCE: HowlRound at 05:00PM on December 5, 2013

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