KAREN SUNDE

A Solo Play in which...
The world's 2nd most produced playwright
            comes upon YOU in his study
            and confides in you
:::  Your First Act takes place October 18, 1896,
the day after Chekhov’s disastrous opening of THE SEAGULL.
:::  Your Last Act takes place January 16, 1904,
the day before Chekhov’s triumphant & final opening - of THE CHERRY ORCHARD.
:::  Both days were challenging, but also essential to him, and for us.
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PRODUCTION HISTORY
Anton, Himself (First) was commissioned and produced by the Actors Theatre of Louisville, published in Moscow art theatre, a monograph for ATL’s Russian Classics in Context Festival

Then it was exported by Artistic Director Oleg Yefremov to his Moscow Art Theatre, and to the Yalta Festival in Russia.

Next it was performed at Peoples Light & Theatre Company, Malvern PA, together with Masha, Too, which PLT had commissioned to accompany it, and then at the Chekhov Now Festival in New York, and the Vancouver Fringe Festival.

Anton, Himself (Last) was commissioned by Roger Ellis and produced at Michigan State University, Allendale to accompany Anton, Himself (First).

WHAT ELSE THEY SAY ABOUT ANTON
“Sunde opens the door for us upon that fascinating, tangled world of the writer in his most intimate moments of creating new work. ...what adds great richness to the underlying comedy is...that here (he) will turn his uncertain career around.”

Roger Ellis, ed, SCENES AND MONOLOGS FROM

THE BEST NEW PLAYS, Meriwether Publishing.

“An evening in the mind of...Chekhov. ...beautifully sublime portrayal of a man”