Overview
Anton Chekhov’s first of four major plays dramatizes the romantic and artistic conflicts between its four main characters: Boris Trigorin, a well-known writer, the ingenue Nina, the fading actress Irina Arkadina, and her son the would-be playwright Konstantin Tréplev. Yury Butusov's Golden Mask Award-winning production abounds in an incredible freedom and openness, delving deep into the throes of artistic creation and the anguish of the artist who struggles to find a language of his own. This is not only a performance about the theatre, it is an anthology of the theatre. Chekhov’s characters are in the process of creating their lives or watching them fall apart, which, according to Butusov, may be a closely related activity.
Cast
- Polina Raykina as Irina Nikolaevna Arkadina
- Denis Sukhanov as Boris Alekseevich Trigorin
- Timofey Tribuntcev as Konstantin Gavrilovich Treplev
- Vladimir Bolshov as Petr Nikolaevich Sorin
- Agrippina Steklova as Nina Zarechnaya
- Anton Kuznetcov as Ilya Afanasyevich Shamraev
- Lika Nifontova as Polina Andreevna
- Maryana Spivak as Masha
- Artyom Osipov as Evgeniy Sergeevich Dorn
- Anton Kuznecov as Semen Semenovich Medvedenko