Event – Chekhov’s Cherry Orchards: His Last Play in Perspective. Rosamund Bartlett.

Rosamund Bartlett has written widely on Russian music, literature and cultural history, and is one of the UK’s leading Chekhov specialists. She is the author of Chekhov: Scenes from a Life, which was the Moscow Times Biography of the Year in 2004. Editor and co-translator of Chekhov: A Life in Letters, she has also translated two anthologies of Chekhov’s short stories: About Love and Other Stories, shortlisted for the Weidenfeld Translation Prize, and The Exclamation Mark.

Her approach to Chekhov has been informed by her work as a musicologist, specifically the research for her first monograph, Wagner and Russia, and the insights provided by Tchaikovsky and Shostakovich’s readings of his works. A Director of the Anton Chekhov Foundation, set up to preserve the house in Yalta where Chekhov wrote The Cherry Orchard, she is currently collaborating with Michael Pennington to organise a week of fund-raising readings in 2010 at the Hampstead Theatre to celebrate the 150th anniversary of Chekhov’s birth.

Rose Theatre foyer
10th November at 7.00 p.m.