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Issue Details: First known date: 2015... 2015 Dear Dr Chekhov
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'Dear Dr Chekhov tells the imaginary story of the Russian writer Anton Chekhov’s epistolary friendship with Phoebe Jane Phillips, a lighthouse keeper’s daughter who lived on Lady Elliot Island, on the Great Barrier Reef. The action takes place while Chekhov is at work on cold Sakhalin Island, an island that lies just north of Japan.' (Production summary)

Production Details

  • Program credits:

    Actors

    Narrator: Ella Scott Lynch

    Anton Chekhov: Shai Alexander

    Phoebe Jane Phillips: Freya Irving

    Atsuo Goto: Kengo Hasuo

    Raj Kumar: Gerard Miranda

    Ship’s captain, Albert Ellis: Greg Refeld

    James Phillips, lighthouse keeper: Gary Bryson

    Mrs Phillips, lighthouse keeper’s wife: Margaret Irving

    First Officer, Fred Angel: Adam Beale

    Sakhalin Convicts: As Gusev, Dimitry Nikolaev and as Anya, Esther Krause with Galina Lazareva and Greg Refeld

    Music

    Singer: Galina Lazareva

    Musical improvisations: Violin—Christopher Latham and Veren Grigorov, wind instruments—Jim Denley, piano—Chris Abrahams, percussion—Nightflight to Venus

    Incorporated into one of the violin improvisations was a melody composed by Hollis Taylor for the ABC Radio program Dance of the Hungry Ghosts.

    Production

    Writer: Jane Messer

    Field recordings, sound design: Jane Ulman

    Final mix: Phillip Ulman

    Voice recordings and additional mix: Peter Ring

    Produced at Macquarie University’s Faculty of Arts sound and drama studios

    Dear Dr Chekhov was produced and directed by Jane Messer and Jane Ulman.

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Works about this Work

Drama Catches a New Radio Wave Juliana Yu , 2015 single work review
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 24 August 2015; (p. 11)

— Review of Dear Dr Chekhov Jane Messer , 2015 single work radio play
Drama Catches a New Radio Wave Juliana Yu , 2015 single work review
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 24 August 2015; (p. 11)

— Review of Dear Dr Chekhov Jane Messer , 2015 single work radio play
Last amended 24 Aug 2015 08:15:57
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