Russian Realist Plays

Plays by Anton Chekhov, which brought quiet, realistic scenes of Russian provincial life to the stage. A play belongs here when the cited article names Chekhov or the Moscow Art Theatre as its source. It excludes plays of other countries. These four plays, written between 1895 and 1904, rely on small gestures, silences and unspoken disappointment instead of plot, and they were first staged at the Moscow Art Theatre or the Alexandrinsky Theatre. They deal with a changing Russia, thwarted longing and the loss of the old order. It excludes plays by other writers, including those of the same period.