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.
as Irina Nikolaevna Arkadina
as Boris Alekseevich Trigorin
as Konstantin Gavrilovich Treplev
as Petr Nikolaevich Sorin
as Nina Zarechnaya
as Ilya Afanasyevich Shamraev
as Polina Andreevna
as Masha
as Evgeniy Sergeevich Dorn
as Semen Semenovich Medvedenko
as Dancing girl
as Yakov
as Treplev’s monologue in Act 4
