ABSTRACT
This chapter has two purposes – and aims to interweave them. One focus here is on professional producers of mediated products as fans – myself among them. I have been a fan of Anton Chekhov since spring 1968 when I was choosing my Masters Dissertation subject at Sussex University England. I switched on my television (TV), saw Trevor Nunn’s production of Chekhov’s The Cherry Orchard, loved it, made Chekhov my dissertation subject and later PhD, followed by a book, Chekhov: A Structuralist Study in 1980 (naming my son, born the day the manuscript was finished, Anton).
