The Chekhov
by Nicola Gunn
Date and venue: 5 & 6 June at 20:00, and 7 June at 16:00 at Bergen Kjøtt.
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Punk meets classic literature.
Three performers wait through a series of crises, an endlessly changing series of scenarios, that move constantly between comedy and tragedy.
Waiting for Greta Thunberg to solve the climate crisis.
Waiting for Ukraine to win the war, still.
Waiting for Bergen to open a ramen shop.
Three Sisters by Chekhov is the story of three sisters who have lost both parents, who struggle to find meaning in their present context – a small provincial town – while longing to return to Moscow, and who suffer inaction and disenchantment.
In The Chekhov by Bergen-based Nicola Gunn, female complaints, decrescendos, studies in waiting and the occasional firework transpose the story to the present moment, exploding punk-meets-classic-literary aesthetics. The Chekhov re-composes the themes and narrative structure of Anton Chekhov’s 1901 play Three Sisters to connect to the present, through text, activism, punk and pyrotechnics.
Image: The Chekhov. Photo: Thor Brødreskift
Contributors
Nicola Gunn concept, direction, script
Nicola Gunn, Caroline Eckly and Ida Wigdel choreography, cast
Ådne Meisfjord music
Emily Parsons-Lord paintings
Silje Grimstad lighting design
A co-production between
Festspillene i Bergen og Bergen Internasjonale Teater, Carte Blanche og Rosendal Teater
