What Makes Theater Folk Keep Riffing on Chekhov?

“There’s a Trinidadian Three Sisters, a Liverpudlian Three Sisters, … Uncle Vanya has visited North Wales and Australia, and in Drowning Crow, The Seagull plays out in the black artistic community of South Carolina … Other plays have wondered how Arkadina reacted to her son’s suicide and how the sisters would actually fare if they ever got to Moscow. … What hubristic impulse is it that draws us to rewrite this man and his work?”