Chekhov

All the actors are on the same page, equally at home with Chekhov’s realism and buoyant theatricality.

Just like Chekhov’s gun, if there’s an extremely toxic fruit lying around, someone is probably going to eat it.

On stage, she appeared alongside Glenda Jackson in Chekhov's Three Sisters; and played Ophelia in Hamlet – later admitting her nightly descent into madness had been chemically enhanced.

The Guardian's Michael Billington called it "one of the great Chekhov experiences of the 20th Century...that brought tears to my eyes".

Shakespeare, Ibsen, Chekhov, Beckett, the ancient Greek tragedians and Tennessee Williams were among the voices who originally called out to me.