Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

Three sisters

Photo: Željko Stevanić

Margareta Schwarzwald Institute and UL AGRFT

Première: 30. 9. 2015, Cona 3, Ljubljana
Running time 1 hour 30 minutes. No interval.

Authors of translation and adaptation Maruša Kink and the team
Director Maruša Kink
Dramaturg Nika Leskovšek
Set designers Tina Bonča, Maruša Kink and the team
Costume designer Tina Bonča

Cast
Matija Vastl
Daša Doberšek
Lucija Tratnik
Danijel Bogataj
Aja Kobe
Jure Kopušar

Mentors
Directing
izr. prof. mag. Tomislav Janežič

Set design
doc. mag. Jasna Vastl

When there is no real life, one lives out of a mirage. (A. P. Chekhov)

Chekhov is everywhere. This year in particular. On stages. At home and abroad. Moreover, he has always been present in ineffably small everyday things. In the lingering on and in the yearning. The production sets out to explore the question of what is the interest of our present time in a play that is based on time. In what way does a play inhabit time and in what way does time inhabit a play. The irony lies in the fact that, in spite of our temporal acceleration, there is increasingly less time left to us. We don’t even take that much time to sit at the railway station, if for no other reason than to watch life passing by us. We simply linger on in this time and space although we constantly yearn to go someplace else. Until we are sometimes simply chased away. Although: "There is no happiness, neither here nor there.”
A play for our present time, whose timespan from the beginning to the end is truly small. With a few characters and even fewer actors. A play that will endure. Until we are gone.