Daily Archives: October 7, 2019

VANYA ON THE PLAINS: A HYMN TO THE HUMAN HEART

On October 26, 1899, the day Anton Chekhov’s new play Uncle Vanya, debuted at the Moscow Art Theater, the audience heard the following exchange between two characters:         Dr. Astrov: I wonder if the people who live one or two hundred  years from now would remember us with a kind word.         […]