About the Project
TWO OUTLAWS TWO KISSES is a program of two comedies by Anton
Chekhov, written at the height of his dramatic career, presented in new
adaptations by playwright/screenwriter Frederick Bailey. A MARRIAGE
PROPOSAL is based on Chekhov’s The Marriage Proposal, and THE BIG
OAF is taken from Chekhov’s The Bear, sometimes translated as The
Boor or The Brute. Both plays in these adaptations are now set in the
American west in 1904 (the year Chekhov died at the age of 44), and
both are hilarious perspectives on romantic love and human
misunderstanding. Chekhov was a practicing physician who worked
with Stanislavsky and the prestigious Moscow Art Theatre at the end of
the 19th century, producing such classic plays as The Cherry Orchard,
Uncle Vanya, The Seagull, and The Three Sisters, and adaptor Bailey was
co-winner of first prize in the first annual New Play Festival at the
renowned Actors Theatre of Louisville and has had a number of his
original plays done in New York, London, Los Angeles, and various
repertory, regional and university theatres across the U.S. The Show is featuring performances by Wojciech Fry-Lewis and Aygul Maksutova
Production Team
