Stage Russia - A. P. Csehov: Ványa bácsi

Rendező: Rimas Tuminas

Szereplők
Ivan Petrovich Voynitsky, Sonya bácsikája: Sergey Makovetskiy
Aleksandr Vladimirovich Serebryakov, visszavonult egyetemi professzor: Vladimir Simonov
Elena Andreevna, a professzor felesége: Anna Dubrovskaya
Sofia Alexandrovna (Sonya), a professzor első házasságából származó lánya: Eugenia Kregzhde
Maria Vasilyevna Voynitsky, Vanya édesanyja és a professzor első felesége: Liudmila Maksakova
Mikhail Lvovich Astrov, a doktor: Artur Ivanov
Ilya Ilych Telegin, elszegényedett földbirtokos: Yury Kraskov
Marina Timofeevna, nővér: Inna Alabina
Efim, fizikai munkás: Sergey Epishev

Rimas Tuminas’ reimagining of Anton Chekhov’s tale about broken illusions and dashed hopes is freed from its traditional trappings, leaving behind a battlefield for passions and colliding ambitions, We are given an empty space from which life has departed, a theatre space with grey slips, a plaster of Paris lion – a symbol of Petersburg, perhaps the ancestor who built the house came from there, a workbench made out of rough boards, an old sofa, several chairs of different colors. This “Uncle Vanya” is about what Chekhov’s characters think and what they admit to only at moments of emotional turmoil. They are at times tongue-tied or overly brutal, but their revelations break out of them fervently, desperately  just as a man breaks out of a stuffy room into the open air. A Golden Mask Winner for Best Drama, featuring the inimitable Sergey Makovetskiy as Voynitsky.

Running time: 180 minutes with one intermission