TO MOSCOW

This true story of ANTON Chekhov begins

backstage, at the disastrous opening of  THE SEAGULL...

 

…where we meet a country doctor, enchanting to women, whose passion for theatre was both life and death to him-

 

   A luminous actress for whom he wrote,

  and their impossible love-

 

   And a company of amateurs inspired

  to change the theatre, forever.

 

  THE STORY INCLUDES-

 

- Bewitching LIKA, whom ANTON will

   not take and cannot let go;

 

- Valiant sister MASHA, who gives up

   her happiness for his career;

 

- His stormy partnership with the   

   irrepressible KONSTANTIN Stanislavski;

 

- His star-crossed marriage to brilliant

   OLGA Knipper;

 

- His final clash with KONSTANTIN over

     THE CHERRY ORCHARD

 

  The on-stage company invokes the magic

  of theatre to tell their story, and as one, 

  give birth to the Moscow Art Theatre.

 

  VILLAGE VOICE - "VOICE CHOICE"

  OUTER CRITICS CIRCLE -

                     "Recommended list"

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                  Published by

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 Also appears in Scenes & Monologs from    the Best New Plays.  Ed. Roger Ellis,       Meriwether Press 

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 THIS PROJECT OWES ITS BIRTH to...

 the upbeat creative buzz that permeates

            Buzz Mclaughlin's

 "Writing for Stage & Screen" MFA program

   at the New Hampshire Institute of Art

            - a magical place!

   Now sponsors a reading of screenplay           in which a Hollywood director embarks on his final film: an adaptation of the play

TO MOSCOW, in which he plays Stanislavski:

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      THE GREAT GOD SOKOLOV 

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 SEE ALSO... CHEKHOVS AT HOME -3 plays: 

 

   Please God No Wedding or Shooting

                              at the End!

   Anton Himself, and Masha Too

 

Playwright's note: As soon as To Moscow    

 was out there, people began asking for   more plays about Chekhov, so before I

was done 3 more "Chekhov" plays had

been commissioned by:

Actors' Theatre of Louisville

People's Light & Theatre Company, Malvern,PA, and by

Tisch School of the Arts, NYU, NY.