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If we make well-crafted plays that express the essence of what it is to be human, then theatre will have a future...
Raymond Bobgan, Artistic Director, Cleveland Public Theatre
AT25: An Eye on the Future, American Theatre, April 2009

A Playwright Was Born This Day

January 29th, 2010

Anton Chekhov
Jan 29, 1860
Taganrog, Rostov Oblast, Russia

I have written a play on four sheets of paper. It will take fifteen to twenty minutes to act….It is much better to write small things than big ones: they are unpretentious and successful…. What more would you have? I wrote my play in an hour and five minutes.

Letter from Anton Chekhov
to Madame M.V. Kiselyov
January 14, 1887

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