I Take Your Hand in Mine

I Take Your Hand in Mine is an intimate glimpse into the lives of two lovers – the celebrated playwright Anton Chekhov and his actress-wife Olga Knipper. We are voyeurs to the tenderness and longing in their too brief marriage, which struggles against their separation, through Carol Rocamora’s translation and dramatization of the more than 400 love letters they shared.

Academy Award-winner Olympia Dukakis and her husband Louis Zorich star in this unique vehicle, well suited to the talents of these successful artists and devotees of Chekhov. They bring to life the passion that bound these two great superstars at the dawning of the 20th century — he an internationally famous playwright, and she the renowned leading lady of the acclaimed Moscow Art Theatre, where she created many of the starring female roles in his plays.