Nick Hern Books
The Bear
Series: NHB Classic Plays
Imprint: Nick Hern Books
Published in volume Chekhov: Shorts
Tags:
First Staged:
Original version: 1888

The Bear

By Anton Chekhov Translated by Stephen Mulrine
Published in volume Chekhov: Shorts
Want to perform this play? Click here

When Yelena Popova, a reclusive young widow in mourning for her late husband, receives a visit from the irascible Smirnov demanding payment of her husband's debts, things take a surprisingly romantic turn...

The Bear, a one-act comic play or 'vaudeville', was an instant hit when it premiered in Moscow in 1888. This translation by Chekhov expert Stephen Mulrine is published in the collection Chekhov: Shorts.

Series: NHB Classic Plays
Imprint: Nick Hern Books
Published in volume Chekhov: Shorts
Tags:

Also by Anton Chekhov:

Uncle Vanya
The Seagull
Chekhov: Shorts
Three Sisters
The Seagull
Uncle Vanya
Chekhov on Theatre
Three Sisters
The Wedding
Swansong
Three Sisters
The Cherry Orchard
Chekhov's Three Sisters and Woolf's Orlando
Ivanov
Three Sisters
The Cherry Orchard
Chekhov: Four Plays
Ivanov
Three Sisters
A Tragic Figure
Seagull
The Cherry Orchard
On the Evils of Tobacco
Three Sisters
The Proposal
Uncle Vanya

Go to author page...

Also by Stephen Mulrine:

Cinzano & Smirnova's Birthday
The Marriage of Figaro
The Cherry Orchard
The Dance of Death
Ivanov
Chekhov on Theatre
The Seagull
Ghosts
The Servant of Two Masters
Summerfolk
Six Characters in Search of an Author
Swansong
Ibsen: Three Plays
The Wild Duck
On the Evils of Tobacco
Uncle Vanya
The Government Inspector
A Tragic Figure
The Wedding
Three Sisters
An Enemy of the People
The Misanthrope
Chekhov: Shorts
Chekhov: Four Plays
John Gabriel Borkman
The Game Of Love And Chance
Children of the Sun
The Proposal

Go to author page...

Similar Titles
Chekhov: Shorts
Chekhov: Shorts
A collection of five of Anton Chekhov’s best-known short plays, in brand new English translations.
The Proposal
The Proposal
A brilliantly funny one-act play about a hypochondriac attempting to propose to an argumentative young woman.
A Tragic Figure
A Tragic Figure
A comic duologue about a civil servant sweltering in Moscow coping with the incessant demands of his family from thei...
The Wedding
The Wedding
A one-act play by Chekhov in a translation by Chekhov expert Stephen Mulrine.
Swansong
Swansong
A comic duologue about a melancholy old actor perked up by memories of past glories.
Snatches: Moments from 100 Years of Women's Lives
Snatches: Moments from 100 Years of Women's Lives
A collection of monologues that document, remember and bear witness to a century of struggle for progress and equalit...