TO MOSCOW! А PALIMPSEST

This production stems from a desire which must have been felt by each of us at least once – to obliterate and rewrite our past. Having taken Chekhov’s classic Three Sisters for a starting point, the company created a palimpsest, i.e. an old parchment whose text was scraped off to make room for a new one, but eventually traces of the old inscription survive. In a warm dialogue between theatre and music, four actresses and two musicians embark on writing a new version of the drama. Following the original, the new play explores how difficult it can be for a person to resist when one’s dreams, and then life itself, are ruined by merciless time.

Getting back to the drama of the Prozorov family, who dream of a return to Moscow, their paradise lost, but never start moving and gradually surrender to the circumstances, we come across issues ideally suitable for the present. The concept of a sketch suggested by the term palimpsest transcends this production, and allows for a dialogue between classics and modernity, actors and characters, invention and reality.