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The Neva
The Neva
Teatro en el Blanco in association with Santiago aMil Festival (Chile)
Written and directed Guillermo Calderon
Technical Director Jose Tomas Gonzalez
Performed by Trinidad Gonzalez, Paula Zuniga, Jorge Eduardo Becker

Show is performed in Spanish with Russian subtitles translated by Elizaveta Glagolina

On a winter day of 1905 when the revolutionary actions are in full swing in the streets of St. Petersburg three actors are about to start rehearsing in a playhouse not far from the Neva river. One of them is Anton Chekhov’s widow and a Moscow Art Theatre actress Olga Knipper-Chekhova. After the death of her husband she has been thinking that her acting talent has been forever gone. Her partners are trying to help her recover the bygone sense of the stage. The rehearsal never takes place since the director and part of the company don’t arrive due to the upheaval outdoors. However the impossibility of carrying out the work doesn’t discourage the actors from engaging in a lively discourse that every now and then results in absurd and comical situations.

The production has spectacular success with the audience and every show is played to packed houses. Critics referred to it as «the unique staging» and its authors received three Altazar Awards. 

«Teatro en el Blanco», an independent theatre company from Chile, was founded in 2004. The troupe consists of four actors, each having over ten years of experience with a variety of companies. From the outset the troupe has been operating on the full self-sufficiency basis which accounts for its absolute political and creative freedom. They began with the quest for their own artistic language, the result being the shaping of the basic guidelines of the company’s work: making their own dramatic texts in keeping with the new concept of the modern drama; addressing the issues connected with the specific social and political circumstances; viewing the actor as the central element of performance; minimizing the range of the means of scenic expression, so that simplicity becomes the prime source of creativity.

June 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
Meyerhold Center
1 h 10 min without intermission