While this collection of seven short one act plays/sketches may be a little niche—I imagine the audience interested in seeing Chekhov's early, funny stuff is fairly small—there are a few things worth noting: (1) They're actually fairly funny (though Bentley admits to some sweetening in translation); (2) They involve a great deal of screaming arguments, to the point where it's fairly easy to draw a direct line to the comedy of Larry David; (3) "A Wedding" reads like a precursor to Chekhov's four major plays, in its disparate, overstuffed, impressionist, "centrifugal" style: if you wanted to see how he works out his complex story arrangements, here’s a more manageable example. Which also feels like something Larry David directly lifted, come to think of it. Three stars.