— Congratulations to the theater on the premiere! A completely St. Petersburg director and a real European performance. Thanks to the artists who were able to show what the director intended. Happy for myself. “Everything is understood and accepted,” says the Tyumen woman.
The director Roman Gabria himself, who staged the play, spoke about how it was created.
— The question is not what, but how. Even though we adapted the text and there will be non-linear plots, we still read Anton Pavlovich Chekhov. I’m generally quite conservative in terms of the author’s theme, and I try to stick to it. Maybe I’m looking with some of my inverted eyes, but I’m following the author. You always want to notice your own in the blurry. Does Chekhov have a story about a mother and son? About Nina’s failed career as an actress? About a child’s suicide? About the search for new forms and Kostya’s nonconformist challenge to the ossified creative brotherhood? It’s all there! We think about all this. What is in the content of literature is the source for us,” the TBDT press service quotes the director as saying.
