Uncle Vania (RO)
Apr-04
The fascinating and inexhaustible universe of Chekhov will be transposed on the stage of the Liviu Rebreanu Company by director Sorin Militaru in a staging that will be faithful to the text, but accessible to contemporary audiences.
"Uncle Vanya" is one of the plays considered a landmark for Anton Pavlovich Chekhov.
Originally published in 1898 and staged for the first time ten years later at the Moscow Art Theatre, the Russian playwright's text tells the story of Professor Aleksandr Vladimirovich Serebriakov and his family.
The professor, now in his second marriage, brings his much younger wife, Elena Andreevna, to his estate. Ivan Petrovich Voinitsky, Uncle Vanya, the brother of the professor's first wife, who manages the estate, Sonia Aleksandrovna Serebriakov, the professor's daughter from his first marriage, and Maria Vasilevna Voinitsky, the mother of the professor's first wife, live here.
Other characters in the text include Mikhail Lvovich Astrov,
the local doctor, a regular guest of the house.
At the Serebriakov estate, apparently nothing happens, which is characteristic of the Chekhovian world, but, at the same time, a lot happens in the minds and souls of the characters. Sonia is passionately in love with Astrov, but does not consider herself worthy of him. Astrov and Vanya are in love with the charming Elena. Each lives in his own world, trapped by boredom and lack of confidence.
All the hidden thoughts eventually come out, however, without changing the rules of such a rigid universe too much.
"Uncle Vanya" is one of the plays considered a landmark for Anton Pavlovich Chekhov.
Originally published in 1898 and staged for the first time ten years later at the Moscow Art Theatre, the Russian playwright's text tells the story of Professor Aleksandr Vladimirovich Serebriakov and his family.
The professor, now in his second marriage, brings his much younger wife, Elena Andreevna, to his estate. Ivan Petrovich Voinitsky, Uncle Vanya, the brother of the professor's first wife, who manages the estate, Sonia Aleksandrovna Serebriakov, the professor's daughter from his first marriage, and Maria Vasilevna Voinitsky, the mother of the professor's first wife, live here.
Other characters in the text include Mikhail Lvovich Astrov,
the local doctor, a regular guest of the house.
At the Serebriakov estate, apparently nothing happens, which is characteristic of the Chekhovian world, but, at the same time, a lot happens in the minds and souls of the characters. Sonia is passionately in love with Astrov, but does not consider herself worthy of him. Astrov and Vanya are in love with the charming Elena. Each lives in his own world, trapped by boredom and lack of confidence.
All the hidden thoughts eventually come out, however, without changing the rules of such a rigid universe too much.
