Chekhov's Three Sisters and Woolf's Orlando : two renderings for the stage / by Sarah Ruhl.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ruhl, Sarah, 1974-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Young women--Drama.

Young women.

Chekhov, Anton Pavlovich, 1860-1904--Adaptations.

Chekhov, Anton Pavlovich.

Woolf, Virginia, 1882-1941--Adaptations.

Woolf, Virginia.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (257 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Other Title:

Chekhov's 3 Sisters and Woolf's Orlando

Three Sisters

3 Sisters

Woolf's Orlando

Orlando

Place of Publication:

New York : Theatre Communications Group, 2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Adaptations of two classic works through the unique lens of playwright Sarah Ruhl.

Contents:

Contents; When Woolf Saw Chekhov, something of an introduction; Three Sisters; Author's Notes; Production History; Characters; Act I; Act II; Act III; Act IV; Orlando; Production History; Characters; Notes on Orlando; Act I: The Elizabethan Age; Scene 1: Orlando; Scene 2: The Queen; Scene 3: Man's Treachery; Scene 4: Orlando Grows Tired of the Queen Or: Clorinda, Favilla and Euphrosyne; Scene 5: The Great Frost. The Russian Princess.; Scene 6: Orlando and Sasha; Scene 7: London; Scene 8: The Escape; Act II: The Seventeenth Century; Scene 1: The Thaw. Also, the Archduchess.

Scene 2: ConstantinopleAct III: The Eighteenth Century; Scene 1: Orlando Sails Back to England.; Scene 2: Orlando Returns Home.; Scene 3: The Archduchess Harriet; Act IV: The Nineteenth Century; Scene 1: On the Preponderance of Wedding Rings; Scene 2: The Marriage; Act V: The Twentieth Century; Scene 1; Acknowledgments; Sarah Ruhl

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Contains:

Chekhov, Anton Pavlovich, 1860-1904. Tri sestry. English

Woolf, Virginia, 1882-1941. Orlando.

ISBN:

9781559366496

1559366494