a scene from The Cherry Orchard
The Mossovet Theater has begun its tour in Italy within Russian Seasons project, TASS reports. This time the Venice spectators will see one of the most famous plays by Chekhov - The Cherry Orchard with the actors Alexander Domogarov and Julia Vysotskaya. A famous director Andrey Konchalovsky staged the performance.
The director has already worked with this artistic group. In the Mossovet Theater Andrei Konchalovsky directed two other plays by Anton Chekhov: Uncle Vanya in 2003 and Three Sisters in 2014. The Cherry Orchard premiere was performed in the winter of 2018. Usually these two performances are shown one after another, the actors and scenario unify them. According to Konchalovsky, The Cherry Orchard was the last, final part of the trilogy.
The director recalled that it was this play that was the last Chekhov's work. He wrote it being seriously ill, knowing that he would soon die, he decided to say a cheerful goodbye to life. That is why he wrote a comedy.
According to the director, Chekhov's plays are interesting and understandable to any viewers regardless their language or culture. The theater performed them in Great Britain, Georgia, Latvia, Israel, and everywhere it was welcomed very warm.
According to Russkiy Mir, earlier Chekhov’s plays staged by Konchalovsky were already shown in Italy. Russian actors were participants of the 7th Napoli Teatro Festival.
Russkiy Mir
