Download or read book The Moscow Art Theatre Series of Russian Plays, Vol. 5 written by Oliver M. Sayler and published by . This book was released on 2016-06-21 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Moscow Art Theatre Series of Russian Plays, Vol. 5: Direction of Morris Gest Art Theatre under the spur of the acclaim The Sea Gull had achieved. Tchekhofi, however, had re turned to Moscow in the spring of 1899 from his en forced winter exile in the Crimea too late to see The Sea Gull in performance. A close friendship sprang up between him and his interpreting artists, but he felt in duty bound to leave the new manuscript with the rival theatre. A solution of the dilemma soon ap peared when the committee of the Small Imperial Theatre demanded certain changes in the third act. Tchekhoff refused to make any revisions, and the out come of the impasse was that the Art Theatre snatched the manuscript as it stood, accepted it without question and hurried the play into rehearsal. On the night of November 7 (our calendar), I899, therefore, Uncle Vanya as we know it today, was publicly performed for the first time on the stage with which Tchekhoff's fame as a playwright was so inextricably interwoven. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.