Playwright Dan Rebellato: Chekhov in Hell

INTERVIEW: DAN REBELLATO

The playwright and academic talks to Aleks Sierz about his latest successful play, Chekhov in Hell (Drum Theatre, Plymouth), which sees the Russian playwright come awake, after a 100-year coma, in 21st-century Britain.

I was asking, ‘What would Chekhov’s characteristic gaze be on the contemporary? How would he see the world today?’