The Yalta Game

Download or read book The Yalta Game written by Brian Friel and published by Gallery Books. This book was released on 2001 with total page 46 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This marvelously inventive new play is based on a theme in Chekhov's celebrated 1899 short story, "The Lady with the Lapdog." At an end-of-season resort on the shore of the Baltic Sea, a pair of strangers play the "unacknowledged Yalta game" by "divining others" lives or investing the lives of others with an imagined life." These companions in adventure seek an end to loneliness in the conviction that "disappointments are only the postponement of the complete happiness which has to come." Freil has unraveled a thread of Chekhov's original and woven it afresh into a startling tapestry of longings and resolutions.