A garden for Chekhov

Alma Duran is a renowned actress, but she hasn’t been working as much as before. Three years into unemployment, she’s facing defeat and the lack of money. Still, she never loses her capacity for reinvention. Living with her daughter, a doctor, and her son-in-law, a police officer, she intends to go back to the stage with a production of Anton Chekhov’s The Cherry Orchard.

Between giving theater lessons to a young aspiring actress and the impact her carefree, artistic spirit has in the daily lives of the couple in crisis, Alma meets, in the building’s play area, a man who claims he’s Anton Chekhov. The two of them start rehearsing the play and talking about the challenges of today’s world, blurring the lines between reality, fiction, past, present and future.

Inspired in the nuances of emotion in Chekhov’s writing, Pedro Brício’s Um jardim para Tchekhov is a fun, poetic text, reflection on social tensions, violence and intolerance.

About the author
Pedro Brício was born in Rio de Janeiro in 1972. He’s an author, director and actor. He wrote and directed the plays O condomínio, Me salve, musical!, Trabalhos de amores quase perdidos (Cobogó, 2012), Cine-teatro limite, A incrível confeitaria do Sr. Pellica, Sonhos de uma noite com o Galpão e King Kong Fran (Cobogó, 2023) — in partnership with Rafaela Azevedo —, among others. He also authored Um jardim para Tchekhov, Nastácia, Breu, Comédia russa, which were, respectively, directed by Georgette Fadel, Miwa Yanagisawa and João Fonseca. He has won some of the country’s biggest awards, such as Shell, Questão de Crítica, Contigo and APCA. His writing has been translated into English, Spanish and German. He has participated in the Frankfurt International Book Faire, in the Guadalajara Contemporary Theater Week, and in Una Mirada al Mundo, in Madrid’s Centro Dramatico Nacional. He directed the musicals Vital — O musical dos Paralamas, Ícaro and The Black Stars and Simbora — A história de Wilson Simonal. As a director, in addition to his own plays, he has put on shows by Samuel Beckett, Edward Albee, Rafael Spregelburd, Patrícia Melo and Hilda Hilst.

About the collection
The Dramaturgia collection has, since 2012, published writing by Brazilian and
international playwrights. The books help in building a memory of current theater, making a new record in the contemporary theater scene. In 2015, Cobogó also launched Dramaturgia Espanhola, the Spanish collection, in 2019, Dramaturgia Francesa, the French collection, and, in 2022, Dramaturgia Holandesa, the Dutch collection. Over 70 important theater authors have been published, with over 100 titles, including various award-winning plays.

Specifications
Title Um jardim para Tchekhov [A garden for Chekhov]
Author Pedro Brício
Language Portuguese
Page count 128
Publisher Cobogó
ISBN 978-65-5691-154-0
Cover Felipe Braga
Format Softcover
Size 13 x 19 cm
Year 2024
Price R$ 56.00