Are You There, Crocodile: Inventing Anton Chekhov

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First published in hardback in 2003, Are You There Crocodile is now available in paperback. Michael Penningtons work on his solo show about Anton Chekhov has taken Londons Russian Actor from the Trans-Siberian Railway to Soviet and post-Soviet Moscow, into the repertoires of the National Theatre and the Old Vic and across Europe. Are You There, Crocodile also includes accounts of his work on Dostoevskys Crime and Punishment, Tolstoys Strider and other Russian projects, as well as searching essays on how Chekhovs four masterpieces actually work in the theatre. This book is a study of the great writer, a partial autobiography, and, centrally, an actors search for identification with the elusive Anton Chekhov himself "the story, humorously told, of an unlikely but tangible companionship."

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It is fortunate that so remarkable a man and writer has attracted so remarkable an actor * Sunday Telegraph on Anton Chekhov, 1984 *
Beautifully nuanced * The Sunday Telegraph *

Author Bio

Michael Pennington has been a lead actor with the RSC, RNT and the Peter Hall Company. He was Joint Artistic Director of the English Shakespeare Company and has been a constant fixture on television and radio dramas. He has received Olivier Award nominations for roles in 'Romeo & Juliet', 'Strider' and 'Richard II', and a Sony Radio Award Nomination for his role in 'Jude the Obscure'. His solo show 'Anton Chekhov' has played at the National Theatre, the Old Vic, numerous festivals abroad, on radio and has been subject of a television documentary.