Stories by Anton Chekhov
DOCTOR CHEKHOV'S LABORATORY
Audience Council
There are no heroes in these stories. Just ordinary people, with no division into positive and negative characters. And brief episodes from their lives - a scalpel-cut look at human everyday life and psyche.
Anton Chekhov, a gifted satirist and a doctor by profession and calling, portrayed life in Russia in the 1880s with great skill in his works, but in fact he was able to diagnose the most characteristic features of human nature, which are not subject to the flow of time.
"Doctor Chekhov's Laboratory" is an unprecedented experiment on the stage of the Daugavpils Theatre, in which, in order to fully surrender to the experience of contemporary art, spectators will this time be denied the opportunity to comfortably settle into their seats with the standard stage arranged in front of them.
Anton Chekhov's short stories "Enemies", "The Malefactor", "The Wife", "Anuta" and many others will be presented to the audience council in the form of dramatic miniatures. Moreover, the playing area will be located around the spectators, while the audience seats will be chairs rotating around their own axis, thus giving the opportunity to look at what is happening in a 360-degree range.
Directors: Oļegs Šapošņikovs, Alla Korovkina
Set designer, costume designer: Inga Bermaka
Lighting designer: Sergejs Vasiļjevs
Cast: Jūlija Ļaha, Irina Kešiševa, Jeļena Ņetjosina or Natālija Kotona, Vadims Bogdanovs, Marģers Eglinskis, Viktors Jancevičs, Ritvars Gailums, Nikolajs Gedzjuns, Miroslavs Blakunovs, Vladislavs Vasiļjevs, Marks Šelutko, Zanda Mankopa
Premiere on May 24, 2019
