Anton Chekhov “UNCLE VANYA” (Dir. Tadas Montrimas)

The author and director of the immersive (engaging, interactive) performance in Russian based on A. Chekhov’s play “Uncle Vanya” is Tadas Montrimas. The performance takes place at Markŭčiai Manor, Vilnius, Subačiaus St. 124. The performance is in Russian. For those who do not understand Russian, a guide-description (LT, EN, PL) will help experience and understand the performance — you will receive it before the show. In this innovatively conceived performance, audience members travel with a guide through different locations, becoming invisible and silent witnesses to the events unfolding there. The A. Pushkin Museum in Markŭčiai is the ideal place to recreate what Chekhov himself called “scenes from provincial life” at the end of the 19th century. Not only the convenient geographical location, but also the museum’s rooms — which preserve their authenticity and atmosphere — and the hilly landscape surrounding the house make it suitable for staging individual scenes not only inside but also around the building, giving audiences a true sense of “time travel”. Audiences gathered for “Uncle Vanya” are divided into 4 groups of 15 people. Each group is assigned a guide — a stalker — whose task is to coordinate the audience’s journey through Chekhov’s 1896 work. The guides will introduce their groups to the rules of the upcoming performance, the rights and duties of the audience, and will distribute masks that audience members will not be permitted to remove until the very end of the performance. At any given moment, 4 separate scenes are performed simultaneously, observed by different groups of audience members who, following their guides’ instructions, travel through the performance space. The rooms in Markŭčiai Manor are separated by doors, but both the audience and the characters of the play, within their respective environments, can hear the life happening beyond the walls. The goal of the creators of “Uncle Vanya” is to recreate not the plot of the play, but the very situation — the Voinitsky household overflowing with hatred, self-reproach, anger, yet also with love and passion. We want to create conditions for the audience not only to observe, but to experience — to fully immerse themselves in entirely new sensations, experiences, and emotions. The performance is in Russian.

Adresas: Markučių dvaras