Following its closure last March, a specially commissioned film of this production, recorded in the Harold Pinter theatre in London's West End, was shown on the BBC at the end of December and remains available to stream on BBC iPlayer for the rest of 2021.
Directed by Ian Rickson and with Toby Jones in the title role, this is Chekhov done to perfection. Students for whom Stanislavski is a set practitioner will benefit enormously from seeing how this style of work can be performed at its best (though a handful of fourth-wall breaking soliloquies-to-camera break this mould, and will in themselves provide rich grounds for discussion).
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