Days and Nights: Two Chekhovian Interludes September 26, 2009

New adaptations of two short stories by Anton Chekhov, created and performed by an international company of Korean, Taiwanese and American theatre artists, receive their New York premieres. 'The Doctor, A Chamber Opera' is based on the 1887 Chekov story and visits the mindscape of a physician overcome with grief and uncertainty as he visits a dying young boy he has reason to believe is his illegitimate son. Chekhov's 'A Joke, A Musical' is the story of a man who lives with the memories of his first love. Too shy as a boy to confess his love to the girl he adores, he recalls whispering in her ear words of love she never hears over her own screams as their sled flies down a silvery, snowy hill.