Chekhov in Hell
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Published:23rd Aug '11
Currently unavailable, and unfortunately no date known when it will be back

A bitter comedy that takes you on a whirlwind tour of modern day Britain.
Russian playwright Anton Chekhov is transported to modern day Britain and a new society. What will Chekhov make of it? This play explores modern British culture in all of its glory."I don't know who he is but he's old, he's got to know stuff...he's got to be like wise and stuff yeah? Anton Chekhov, masterful playwright and mirror to Russian society, awakening from one hundred years of sleep, is thrust rudely into twenty first century Britain. Reality shows, fashionistas, Z-list celebrities, illegal immigrants, chuggers and wags. Pole dancing, YouTube, Twitter and 5-a-day. Chekhov in Hell takes you on a whirlwind tour of modern day Britain."
"acerbic and clever, gutsy and genuinely felt" Exuent Magazine irresistible
a fast, funny and achingly hip production” The Times "A sharply satirical play
Knowing something about Chekhov and his work adds a layer of poignancy to proceedings, but even if you’ve never heard of the playwright there is much to enjoy as he plunges into a London peopled by sex traffickers, cynical fashionistas, bamboozling feng shui experts, survivor self-help groups spouting therapy-speak and restaurants serving food that doesn’t look or taste like anything your gran would recognise." Lyn Gardner, Guardian A bittersweet piece blending the famous Russian writer’s history and works with a wry treatise on fickle 21st century Britain. Interesting, frustrating, quirky and funny.” Karen Bussell, What’s On Stage droll and original
this whistle-stop tour of our grab-it-and-go world is sharp and sad, and performed with brio by the versatile cast.” Financial Times
"acerbic and clever, gutsy and genuinely felt"— Exuent Magazine “irresistible… a fast, funny and achingly hip production” —The Times "A sharply satirical play… Knowing something about Chekhov and his work adds a layer of poignancy to proceedings, but even if you’ve never heard of the playwright there is much to enjoy as he plunges into a London peopled by sex traffickers, cynical fashionistas, bamboozling feng shui experts, survivor self-help groups spouting therapy-speak and restaurants serving food that doesn’t look or taste like anything your gran would recognise." —Lyn Gardner, Guardian “A bittersweet piece blending the famous Russian writer’s history and works with a wry treatise on fickle 21st century Britain. Interesting, frustrating, quirky and funny.” —Karen Bussell, What’s On Stage “droll and original…this whistle-stop tour of our grab-it-and-go world is sharp and sad, and performed with brio by the versatile cast.” —Financial Times
"acerbic and clever, gutsy and genuinely felt"—Exuent Magazine “irresistible… a fast, funny and achingly hip production”—The Times "A sharply satirical play… Knowing something about Chekhov and his work adds a layer of poignancy to proceedings, but even if you’ve never heard of the playwright there is much to enjoy as he plunges into a London peopled by sex traffickers, cynical fashionistas, bamboozling feng shui experts, survivor self-help groups spouting therapy-speak and restaurants serving food that doesn’t look or taste like anything your gran would recognise."—Lyn Gardner, Guardian “A bittersweet piece blending the famous Russian writer’s history and works with a wry treatise on fickle 21st century Britain. Interesting, frustrating, quirky and funny.”—Karen Bussell, What’s On Stage “droll and original…this whistle-stop tour of our grab-it-and-go world is sharp and sad, and performed with brio by the versatile cast.”—Financial Times
ISBN: 9781849431033
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96 pages