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
Anastasiya Vertinskaya strikingly vivid" and, even more extraordinary, continuously developing in the course of just four short scenes. "In Princess Liza there is a lot of inner dynamics and total integrity," according to the "Actors of Soviet Cinema" (1967) almanac. Vertinskaya's work in Sovremennik ("The Cherry Orchard", "Valentin and Valentina") made critics speak of the "unique gracefulness" and the "technical virtuosity combined with deep psychological insight." Critically acclaimed were her performances in "The Seagull" (Nina) and "Uncle Vanya" (Elena). In "Tartuffe", she elevated her Elmyra "onto on an enormous aesthetic pedestal, presenting her as a kind of noblewoman of old French canvasses,