{"product_id":"young-chekov-plays","title":"Young Chekov Plays","description":"\u003cp\u003eby Anton Chekov and David Hare\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAnton Chekhov is one of the undisputed masters of world drama. He is usually thought to hide himself behind his characters and stories, keeping his own personality well off-stage. But when he was young he wrote three plays - \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003ePlatonov\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eIvanov\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e and \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eThe Seagull\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e-\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e which, with their thrilling sunbursts of youthful anger and romanticism, reveal a very different playwright from the one known by his mature, more familiar work.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eYoung Chekhov\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e brings these three blazing dramas together in versions by internationally acclaimed dramatist David Hare, offering the chance to explore the birth of a revolutionary dramatic voice. The plays show a writer freeing himself from the constraints of nineteenth-century melodrama and herald the shift into the twentieth century, and the birth of the modern stage.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eYoung Chekhov\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e season premiered at the Chichester Festival Theatre in the autumn of 2015.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"National Theatre Shop","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54954049798520,"sku":"9780571313020","price":16.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0257\/9562\/5032\/files\/9780571313020.jpg?v=1740572469","url":"https:\/\/shop.nationaltheatre.org.uk\/products\/young-chekov-plays","provider":"National Theatre Shop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}