Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright David Mamet, in this unique adaptation of one of the great masterpieces of the theater, allows us to see Anton Chekhov \'s The Cherry Orchard in totally new and surprising ways.
Contributor Bio: David Mamet Mamet is the Pulitzer Prize-Winning Author and Director of numerous Plays and Films..
His first book of stories in 1886 was successful, and gradually adopted writing as a profession.
He studied medicine at Moscow, and began to write while a student. - Robert Brustein, \'The New Republic\' About author(s): Contributor Bio: Anton Pavlovich Chekhov Chekhov was a playwright and master of the short story.
Mamet has made me rethink the play.
If nothing else, it will help to undermine our silly critical notions of \'definitive\' Chekhov.
This is a tribute to its strong point of view and clear point of departure. . . .
Mamet\'s ear is famously impeccable, the dialogue is always authentic and convincing .
Mamet the adaptor has turned Chekhov\'s Cherry Orchard into a Mamet play.
The result, said \'The Sentinel, \' blows a gust of fresh air into the old play while the Chicago Sun-Times called it audacious [and] consistently arresting.
As Mamet explains in his introduction, he views the play as a series of scenes about sexuality and, particularly, frustrated sexuality rather than about a dying Russia.
Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright David Mamet, in this unique adaptation of one of the great masterpieces of the theater, allows us to see Anton Chekhov \'s The Cherry Orchard in totally new and surprising ways
