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Among the most recent plays by the Olivier- and Tony-Award winner, it was first produced off-Broadway in 2002. In the playwright’s sensitive exploration of “shadowy sexuality” among three generations of characters, the lines between childhood and adulthood blur in the oppressive heat of a Greenwich Village summer during the 1950s.

Premiered in London’s West End in 2000 and produced off-Broadway in 2001, this play about a 15-year-old American student in Paris, who one evening learns much about life from a seductive literature teacher, earned plaudits from the critics. Finely crafted, as are all of Richard Nelson’s plays, it is also highly engaging in its affecting delicacy.

The American playwright’s English adaptations of three classical Chekhov works: The Wood Demon, The Seagull and Three Sisters. See also his adaptation of Pirandello’s Enrico IV and his English version of Strindberg’s Miss Julie (Broadway Play Publishing, 2001, 2003).