Picking Up Chekhov
- Publisher
- J. Gordon Shillingford Publishing
- Initial publish date
- Oct 2022
- Category
- Canadian
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9781897289143
- Publish Date
- Apr 2007
- List Price
- $14.95
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eBook
- ISBN
- 9781990737541
- Publish Date
- Oct 2022
- List Price
- $9.99
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Description
Picking Up Chekhov is a picaresque black comedy about a two-bit repo-man, his angry ex-wife, and their smart-alec teenaged daughter whose lives collide with an enigmatic hitchhiker named Chekhov and a kid with a serious grudge.
About the author
Mansel Robinson’s plays have been produced across the country and include Colonial Tongues, Collateral Damage, The Heart As It Lived, Downsizing Democracy, Spitting Slag, Ghost Trains, and Street Wheat. Scorched Ice, a cold–war drama, was recently produced by Last Exit Theatre in Saskatoon. He has been nominated twice for Saskatchewan Book of the Year and is winner of the John V. Hicks Award and Geist Magazine&3146;s Award for Distance Writing. Robinson has been writer–in–residence at the Pierre Berton House in Dawson City, Yukon; Northern Light Theatre in Edmonton; at the University of Windsor; and at the Regina Public Library in 2005/06. Current projects include Bite the Hand, which was presented as a staged reading at the Saskatchewan Playwrights’ Centre’s 2005 Spring Festival of New Plays. He is also working on a satire about gangsters and academia. Originally from Chapleau, Northern Ontario, Robinson is based in Saskatoon.