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''Platonov'' ((ロシア語:Платонов), also known as ''Fatherlessness'' and ''A Play Without a Title'')〔 is the name in English given to an early, untitled play in four acts written by Anton Chekhov in 1878. It was the first large-scale drama by Chekhov, written specifically for Maria Yermolova, rising star of Maly Theatre.〔Yermolova joined Maly at the age of 17 in 1870 but was promoted to play leading drama role only in 1876.〕 Yermolova rejected the play and it was not published until 1923.〔 The lead character is Mikhail Platonov, a disillusioned provincial schoolmaster, and his name is used for the title in English translations. The play is set in a dilapidated country house in the Russian provinces. Landowner Anna Petrovna, Sofia Yegorovna, wife of Petrovna's stepson, and one of his colleagues fall in love with the married Platonov. He thinks society is without ideas and principles, but is aware that he himself is very much part of that society. He is compared to Hamlet and Don Juan, and likes to think of himself as a witty and intellectually stimulating entertainer. In the end, he recognises his hopeless position between the four women and retracts into alcohol. Finally, Sofia understands that she cannot hope for a new life with Platonov and shoots him. ==Performance history== A widely-performed adaptation by playwright Michael Frayn, given the title ''Wild Honey'', appeared in 1984.〔 David Magarshack published an unabridged translation in 1964 at Faber and Faber. Chekhov's own text, which despite a running time of about five hours he never thought of as finished, is seldom played. However in 1997 the director Lev Dodin and the Maly Theatre of St Petersburg presented a faithful, and once again untitled, version at the annual Weimar arts festival. The running time was four hours. The production was taken to Saint Petersburg and Milan later that year. Five performances were mounted at the Barbican Arts Centre, London, in June 1999. The work has been adapted and produced at the Almeida Theatre in London in 2001 by David Hare, the Bristol Old Vic, and by the Soulpepper Theatre Company in Toronto. Hare's 2001 version was revived at the Chichester Festival Theatre in 2015.〔http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/theatre-dance/features/platonov-ivanov-and-the-seagull-david-hare-is-determined-to-prove-young-chekhov-is-more-glorious-a6677281.html〕 A new version translated and adapted by Ilya Khodosh was produced at the Yale School of Drama in October 2013.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=''Platonov'' )〕 Andrew Upton adapted the play in 2015 under the title ''The Present'' for the Sydney Theatre Company where it was directed by John Crowley and performed by Cate Blanchett (Anna), Richard Roxburgh (Mikhail), Jacqueline McKenzie (Sophia), Marshall Napier (Ivan) and Toby Schmitz (Nikolai).〔(''The Present'' ), production details, Sydney Theatre Company〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Platonov (play)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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