- Unreliable stories of Stanislavski and Chekhov and the 'authenticity' question ...
	
		- "On hearing this, Chekhov is said to have resolved to write a play in which the characters explicity remark how very fortunate they are to live in a place where there are no mosquitoes to be found."
		
 
	
	 
	- Visiting Chekhov's house in Moscow in the Cold War era ...
	
		- "Anton Pavlovich, she says. He love the people ..."
		
 
	
	 
	- Three old (and probably apocryphal) theatre stories my father told me ...
	
		- "But of course, says the Stage Manager, on condition that, at the end of Act Three, you don't mind drinking reall poison."
 
	
	 
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♦ At the House of Anton Pavlovich
♦ OPEN: Journal of Arts & Letters (USA)