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later.The theater also premiered Chekhov"s last two plays, Three Sisters and The Cherry Orchard, which were a challenge to actors and audiences at the time as the playwright replaced traditional acting with a "theater of mood" and "undercurrents" in the text.
The grandson of a liberated serf and son of a shopkeeper, and a practicing physician almost throughout his literary career, Chekhov "changed the theater forever with The Seagull" and has influenced the development of short stories with innovative "hanging endings" and techniques to show the internal psychology of the characters.
"Never before had symbolism and lyric prose been used in quite that way, and never had so many layers of meaning been expressed at once," American theater director Matthew Earnest once said about Chekhov.
British theater producer and writer Declan Donnellan showed his production of Three Sisters on Friday in Yalta, where Chekhov wrote the play after moving to the Black
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