Chekhov started writing about theatre in newspaper articles and in his
own letters even before he began writing plays. Later, he wrote in
detail about his own plays to his lifelong friend and mentor Alexei
Suvorin; his wife and leading actress, Olga Knipper; and to the two
directors of the Moscow Art Theatre, Stanislavsky and
Nemirovich-Danchenko. Collected here in Stephen Mulrine's vivid
translations, these writings reveal Chekhov's instinctive curiosity
about the way theatre works - and his concerns about how best to realize
his own intentions as a playwright. Often peppery, passionate, even
distraught, as he feels his plays misinterpreted or undermined, Chekhov
comes over in these pages as a true man of the theatre.