NEVA is a play written in 2005 by Chilean playwright Guillermo Calderón. It refers to the Neva River, a river that flows through the city of Saint Petersburg, Russia. Calderón's play takes place in the then capital of the Russian Empire, on a day in 1905. On January 9, 1905, the day that became known as Bloody Sunday, when protesters who marched to deliver a petition to the Tsar, asking for better working conditions in the factories, were shot by the Imperial Guard. The action of NEVA, however, takes place inside a theatre, where an actor and two actresses who were going to meet to rehearse "The Cherry Orchard", end up, somewhat unintentionally, taking shelter from the massacre that takes place in the streets and which will be the trigger for the revolution that will take place later in the country. One of the actresses locked inside the theatre is German Olga Knipper, the first actress at the famous Moscow Art Theatre who was married to Russian playwright Anton Chekhov. Feeling unable to act, after her husband's death from tuberculosis six months ago, and in an attempt to keep on living while the city collapses outside, Olga encourages Masha and Aleko to repeatedly reenact Chekhov's death with her.