Uncle Vanya

The director adapted the text of Chekhov's play considerably while making the both poles of his work, the tragic and humorous, significant. She, in co­operation with the script editor, used some Russian proverbs and everyday phrases to approach Russian reality and disclose their original Chekhov's meaning. At the same time, she added a number of modernizations.

The typical feature of the performance is frenzy and seemingly chaos – characters utter even the most important replics in a hurry, as if by the way. The nostalgie atmosphere of the “old mansion good times” flickers in a rush tempo. The director's interpretation is, at the same time, the defamiliarization of all classical interpretations of "boring" Chekhov and creates an updated version of the performance at the turn of the millenium. The performance became the discovery of this year's Ostrava Theatre Festival.