6 September 2018
3h 00′
Studio performance in the main hall
The works of Anton Pavlovich Chekhov are timeless. They tell such
secrets about the soul, that raise everlasting questions and pose unending
challenges for the director, actor and audience alike. Because we all want the
same thing: happiness. The question is banal and yet still enigmatic: what does
it mean to be happy? How can one reach this state? What must one do for it to
never end? What amount of desire, courage, will, perseverance and awareness is
required?
Irina, Olga and Masha are sisters. They seemingly live in peace with
their brother Andrei in a rural setting where it seems that even the tea’s
steam moves in slow motion. Time moves differently here compared to Moscow,
where all of them desire to return one day. As the creeping minutes go by an
infinite vista of dreams, plans, self-realizations, carriers opens as well as
one of possible or impossible loves. Then suddenly everything comes to a
grinding halt, even though the luggage is already prepared as are the sisters.
How and how long can one remain in a place over which hangs the memory
of the father and that of a childhood that started to fade over the last few
years? The possibilities for happiness seem to pale, they hang over like a vale
of dust over each Moscow destined luggage and dream. Everything that before was
merely somber or leaden at best turns tragic almost unseen. Even though this is
a peaceful, quiet, rural setting where even happiness could bloom.
The production was realized with the aid of the Nemzeti Kulturális Alap
(NKA), the Council of Harghita County and Communitas Foundation. Special thanks
go out to the Salvator Foundation and Tamás Csaba Baricz.
We would like to
notify our audience that the play features live animals (horse and pigeon).
ANDREI SERGEYEVICH PROZOROV
NATALIA IVANOVNA
OLGA
MASHA
IRINA
FYODOR ILYICH KULYGIN
ALEKSANDR IGNATYEVICH VERSHININ
NIKOLAJ LVOVICH TUZENBACH
VASSILY VASILYEVICH SOLYONY
CHEBUTYKIN
ANFISA
Set and costume design:
Márton Erika
Composer:
Bocsárdi Magor
Fine artist:
Ferenczi Zoltán
Directed by: Albu István
● National Theatre Festival - NTF (National Theatre, Bucharest): 26-27 October 2019
● Kisvárda Festival of Hungarian Theatres (House of Arts, Kisvárda, Hungary): 26 June 2019
● Saint George's Days (Tamási Áron Theatre): 28 April 2019