“Everything is new, the past is dead, nothing is real, everything’s good, nothing lasts, it’s all changing, there’s no up, there’s no down” - Chekhov in Hell
Instead of dying in Germany in 1904, Russian playwright Anton Chekhov awakens from a 100-year coma in London in 2010. Rudely thrust into a 21st century reality, Chekhov experiences technology, celebrity, feng shui, social media, cultural appropriation, support groups, human trafficking and an array of characters who are as lost as he is. Searching for answers about what has happened to the world, CHEKHOV IN HELL takes the audience on a funny, fast-paced and thought-provoking journey through a complex and self-centred reality on a trajectory towards oblivion.
“Acerbic and clever, gutsy and genuinely felt, Chekhov in Hell flits deftly between agonising irony and chipper farce as it takes on social media, fashion, futurology and gastronomy and reduces them all to banalised rubble” - Exeunt Magazine
Warnings: M15+ This play contains representations of violence, some explicit and offensive language, and adult themes.