„UNCLE VANYA“
or Never Looking Back on Life
by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
Creatives
Translated from Russian by Ivan Nikolov
Director/Dramatis - Nikolay Lambrev-Michailovski
Set & Costume Designer - Chaika Petrusheva
Music by Dobrin Vekilov-Doni
Light Designer - Lalio Hristov
Assistant Director - Vasil Riahov
Multimedia - Slavi Georgiev
Cast:
DARIN ANGELOV, DEYAN ANGELOV, VALENTIN GANEV, ILIANA KODZHABASHEVA,
EVA DANAILOVA, MILENA ATANASOVA, VICTORIA KOLEVA, STEFAN KUSHEV, VASIL RYAHOV
Chekhov has defined the lifestyle of his characters as ‘Scenes from Country Life’. Still, as with any good and inventively composed play, nothing is what it seems: neither uncle Vanya is a tired and quiet intelligent man nor is Professor Serebryakov only a pompous intellectual, nor is Yelena Andreyevna just a bored beauty; neither is Astrov a bitter and incisive doctor, nor is Sonya just sad and unhappy. For these scenes are also imbued with passion, love and—more life, dreams, disappointments.
Nikolay Lambrev-Michailovski за Uncle Vanya and Anton Chekhov:
‘…Life goes round like a fairground carousel … But then a day comes, when you stop at the mirror willing to eliminate what has been until now. You reject the present in fury and agony, willing to save your soul and body, rushing in a quest for novelty… You have missed and lost values; you have been blind or just unsuccessful in your life, dreams, love and mutuality in your relationship with the others. You fling yourself into the mirror to break it, willing to retrieve something you have seen there, in the crystal pieces. To immerse yourself in it. To feel that you are a man who matters, that you make a difference, that your life is worthwhile. You believe that this is the real thing, but then again this pursuit also proves to be an illusion or just a work of imagination and a desire to catch up with what you have missed or not experienced… And then what? Give up on life or live with the truth about yourself for the days in store for you are yours. After realising what is impossible from now on, it is terribly hard and difficult to accept yourself as you are. Still, the commitment to move on has been granted by God and it would be silly not to accept it. It is also silly not to master in your heart the patience to move on. Only those who have survived the ache of what has been missed and unachieved, are possibly able to take frustration as an energy to keep on living. How many of us pass this test? Chekhov in his hard life dogged by illness, struggles and agony succeeded, believing…’
In-house dramatist - Svetlana Pancheva
Second Assistant Director - Irina Ivanova
Poster and leaflet designer - Yanina Petrova
Photographer - Bozhidar Markov
Premieres on 21, 22 February 2020
Unsuitable for those aged under 12
