Maly Theater

Reading notes

• Expensive Lessons §42 the Maly Theater

  One of Moscow's two great imperial theaters (with the Bolshoi), historically the leading venue for spoken drama -- a real, fashionable destination that lets Vorotov "accidentally" cross paths with Alice outside the lesson.

• The Alarm Clock's Calendar §208 the Maly

  One of Moscow's two great Imperial theaters (alongside the Bolshoi), historically Russia's leading stage for spoken drama; the calendar tracks its (fictional) repertory throughout April.

• To N. A. Leikin, 4 November 1887. Moscow. §5 the Maly Theater (the imperial one)

  The Maly Theater, one of Moscow's two great imperial (state-subsidized) theaters, which belatedly offered to take Ivanov after Chekhov had already committed the play to Korsh -- an irony Chekhov notes without pursuing further.

• To N. A. Leikin, 15 November 1887. Moscow. §3 at the Maly Theatre

  The Maly Theater, one of Moscow's two great imperial (state-subsidized) theaters, cited here as the site of Shpazhinsky's own extravagant production demands.

• To I. L. Leontyev, 18 September 1889. Moscow. §7 The Maly Theatre

  One of Moscow's two imperial theaters, evidently piqued that Chekhov's "Ivanov" was playing at the rival, privately run Korsh Theatre instead.

• To F. A. Kumanin, 10 October 1889. Moscow. §3 the Maly Theatre

  One of Moscow's two imperial theaters, the venue Kumanin has evidently asked about for "The Wood Demon"; Chekhov declines to promise anything until censorship and committee review are complete.

• To M. I. Chaykovsky, 16 February 1890. Moscow. §8 I can imagine how well your "Symphony" would come off here at the Maly Theater.

  The Maly Theater, one of Moscow's two great imperial theaters, is where Chekhov imagines an ideal staging of the play -- singling out the second act in particular as one that Moscow actors, with their skill at stage dialogue, would render "wonderfully."

• In Moscow §26 the Maly Theater

  One of Moscow's two great imperial theaters, historically the city's leading venue for spoken drama; the narrator's insistence that its classical repertoire be staged only "by professors" is another of his nonsensical pronouncements.