Michael Frayn and the TV series "Making Faces", starring Eleanor Bron. He is now considered to be Britain's finest translator of Anton Chekhov ("The Seagull", "Uncle Vanya", "Three Sisters" and "The Cherry Orchard") as well as an early untitled work, which he titled "Wild Honey" (other translations of the work have called it "Platonov" or "Don Juan in the Russian Manner") and a number of Chekhov's smaller plays for an evening called "The Sneeze" (originally performed on the West End by Rowan Atkinson). He also translated Yuri Trifonov's play "Exchange", Leo Tolstoy's "The Fruits of Enlightenment", and Jean Anouilh's "Number One". In
Ann Dunnigan plays: "Ivanov", "The Seagull", "Uncle Vanya", "Three Sisters", and "The Cherry Orchard"; each of these translations has been performed onstage. Dunnigan went on to translate Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Leo Tolstoy, and Ilya Tolstoy in the late 1960s and the early 1970s. Her translations have served as the basis for numerous scholars' comments and analyses of Russian literature. Tennessee Williams regarded her rendering of "The Seagull" to be the best available in English, and made it the principal reference for his 1981 adaptation, "The Notebook of Trigorin". Dunnigan's rendering of "War and Peace" (New American Library, 1968) was the first American English