Farcical, satirical, absurdist, fantastical, silly, romantic…words we don’t normally equate with Anton Chekhov, rather deeming him as a terminally serious man. Bah, we say…lighten up! In The Unserious Chekhov, the cast and crew of a failing and critically-panned production of The Cherry Orchard hope to exorcise the all-too serious ghost of Stanislavski from their show. Congregating backstage, the players perform a unique cleansing ritual: An evening of Chekhov's most wickedly comedic works and satires, including The Bear, Before the Eclipse, Dirty Tragedians and Leprous Playwrights and two world premieres of the translations for On the Main Road and the unfinished The Night Before the Trial. All these wonderful shorts are given a new translation by Chekhov expert George Malko.