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Letters of Anton Chekhov (Tchekhov) - Penn State University

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<strong>Letters</strong> <strong>of</strong> <strong>Anton</strong> <strong>Chekhov</strong> to His Family and Friends with biographical sketchTO V. I. NEMIROVITCH DANTCHENKO.YALTA, November 2, 1903.… About the play.1. Anya can be played by anyone you like, even by a quite unknownactress, so long as she is young and looks like a girl, and speaks in ayouthful singing voice. It is not an important part.(2) Varya is a more serious part.... She is a character in a black dress,something <strong>of</strong> a nun, foolish, tearful, etc.… Gorky is younger than you or I, he has his life before him ….As for the Nizhni theatre, that’s a mere episode; Gorky will try it,“sniff it and reject it.” And while we are on this subject, the wholeidea <strong>of</strong> a “people’s” theatre and “people’s” literature is foolishnessand lollipops for the people. We mustn’t bring Gogol down to thepeople but raise the people up to Gogol ….420

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