The Proposal a "wretched, boring, vulgar little skit". He advised its director, Leontiev, to "roll cigarettes out of it for all I care". When Vassar College staged The Proposal in the 1920s, they performed it three times in one evening, each with a very different staging: "as realism, expressionism, and constructivism". In the second version, played closer to tragedy, the actors were masked, and in the third the actors were all dressed in work suits in a playground, tossing a ball between them. In 1935 in the Soviet Union, the seminal Russian theatre practitioner Vsevolod Meyerhold combined The Proposal with Chekhov's other short plays The Bear and The Anniversary to form a three-act play called 33 Swoons that demonstrated the weakness of the pre-revolutionary intelligentsia. In late June and early July, 2016, three performances of the play were performed at St. Werburgh's Church Parish Hall, Chorlton-cum-Hardy, Manchester, England. It was adapted for Australian TV in 1957. In 1976, Indonesian movie director/ writer making an adaptation with a title PINANGAN. Cast by a comedian actor, Benyamin Sueb and beautiful young actress Rima Melati. References Meister, Charles W. 1988. "The Proposal." In Chekhov Criticism: 1880 Through 1986. Jefferson NC: McFarland. 184–85. Senelick, Laurence. 1985. "Chekhov on Stage." In A Chekhov Companion. Ed. Toby W. Clyman. Westport CT: Greenwood. 209–32. External links Project Gutenberg eText, an English-language compilation of some of Chekov's shorter plays, including The Proposal The Proposal class 10 1890 plays Plays by Anton Chekhov One-act plays