Volksbühne Am Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz - Dimiter Gotscheff
Ivanov
by Anton Chekhov
Classic texts pose questions with a myriad of possible answers. After last year’s much talked-about Nora (Shaubühne), it is now time for another reading of a modern European text from the Berlin theatre.
Associated for over half a century with the Stanislavsky school, theatre greats have been turning to Chekhov’s work since the Sixties. Setting the lyricism to one side, the trivia of daily life around the samovar, they searched within the equivocality of words and silences to discover the existential dimensions of a dramaturgy in which the tragic and the comic are balanced as two sides of the same coin.
Veteran director Dimiter Gotscheff gives us an Ivanov (1887, 1889) which focuses on the hero’s existential despair and uses humour and sarcasm to underscore the inner turmoil of the Russian intellectual torn between a desire for action and for inaction. Social life is transformed into a circus concealed beneath a veil of mist.
The Bulgarian director’s production won the Theater Heute awards for best direction and best sets in 2005.
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Duration 2 hours and 20 minutes with no interval.
Peiraios 260 (H)
- 27/06 until 28/06/2007 at 21:00
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