Anton Chekhov "UNCLE VANYA" (Dir. Tadas Montrimas)

Tadas Montrimas is the author of the adaptation and the staging director of this immersive (engaging, interactive) performance in Russian, based on A. Chekhov's play "Uncle Vanya." The performance takes place at Markučiai Manor, Vilnius, Subačiaus St. 124. The performance is in Russian. For those who do not understand Russian, a guide-description (LT, EN, PL) will be provided before the performance to help you experience and understand it. In this innovatively conceived performance, spectators, accompanied by a guide, travel through different locations, becoming invisible and silent witnesses to the events unfolding there. The A. Pushkin Museum in Markučiai is an ideal venue to recreate "scenes from provincial life" from the late 19th century, as Chekhov himself described them. Not only its convenient geographical location and the museum rooms, which have preserved their authenticity and atmosphere, but also the hilly landscape surrounding the house, are suitable for staging individual scenes not only indoors but also outdoors, thus offering the audience a true "time travel" experience. Spectators attending "Uncle Vanya" are divided into 4 groups of 15 people. Each group is assigned a guide – a "stalker" – whose task is to coordinate the spectators' journey through Chekhov's work, written in 1896. The guides will introduce their groups to the rules of the upcoming performance, the duties and rights of the spectators, and distribute masks, which spectators will not be allowed to remove until the end of the performance. Four separate scenes will be performed simultaneously, observed by different groups of spectators, who will move through the performance space according to the guides' instructions. The rooms in Markučiai Manor are separated by doors, but both the spectators and the play's characters, while in their own environment, can hear the life unfolding behind the wall. The aim of the creators of "Uncle Vanya" is not to recreate the plot of the play, but the situation itself – Voinitsky's home, overflowing with hatred, self-reproach, anger, and at the same time, love and passion. We want to create conditions for the audience not only to observe but also to experience, to immerse themselves as much as possible in completely new sensations, experiences, and feelings. The performance is shown in Russian.

Adresas: Markučių dvaras