THEATER

Dead Centre: Chekhov’s First Play

WEDNESDAY – SUNDAY, OCTOBER 19 – 23, 2022 (continuing through NOVEMBER 6)
7:30 PM WEDNESDAY
8:30 PM THURSDAY
8:00 PM FRIDAY & SATURDAY
2:00 PM SATURDAY & SUNDAY

Irish Arts Center
726 11th Avenue, Hell’s Kitchen, Manhattan

$25-$59
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During the Russian Revolution, Chekhov’s sister put many of his manuscripts into a safe deposit box for safekeeping. Among them was Chekhov’s unperformed first play. The box containing the manuscript — missing its title page — was later discovered by Soviet scholars. This prolix work (much too long to perform as written) has come to be known as Platonov (or, more piquantly, the Play Without a Title) (you might have seen versions of it in New York called Wild Honey and The Present). Dead Centre, however, does not present a version of it. They present a fantasia on it, a play impossible to perform.

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