29 November | 20:00 – www.fnt.ro
The show has been available for online viewing from Sunday 29 November 20:00 till Tuesday 1 December 20:00.
The performance of Uncle Vanya represents a very precise incursion into a world rebuilt with detail and authenticity by the alchemist-director Yuri Kordonsky and his magician-scenographer Elena Dmitrakova.
Translated by: Moni Ghelerter and Radu Teculescu
Cast:
Aleksandr Vladimirovich Serebryakov, retired university professor: Victor Rebengiuc
Helena Andreyevna Serebryakova, his wife: Ana Ioana Macaria
Marina, an old nurse: Mariana Mihuţ
Maria Vasilyevna Voynitskya, the widow of a privy councilor and mother of the Professor’s first wife : Coca Bloos
Ivan Petrovich Voynitsky (Uncle Vanya), her son: Horaţiu Mălăele
Sofia Alexandrovna (Sonia), his daughter from his first marriage: Andreea Bibiri
Mikhail Lvovich Astrov, a doctor: Cornel Scripcaru
Ilya Ilyci Telegin, an impoverished landowner: Ionel Mihăilescu
A Workman: Demeter András
Directed by: Yuri Kordonsky
Set Design by: Elena Dmitrakova
Light Design by: Lucian Moga
TVR Team:
Production Organizer: Sorin Cristea
Musical Illustration: Mihaela Constantinescu
Sound by: Gabi Scîrlet
Edited by: Marius Rusitoru
TV Set design: Bogdan Brolla, Nicoleta Petrovici
DOP: Vlad Tănase
Production Editor: Sînziana Miloşoiu
Producer: Diana Dumitru
Delegate Producer: Dana Andriescu
Directed for TV by: Gini Ignat
Duration: 2h 45min
Producer: „L.S. Bulandra” Theatre, Bucharest – 2011
Recorded for TVR – 2014
Common people like those in Uncle Vanya easily become characters in a drama. Wasted lives, destroyed youths, shattered dreams, unfulfilled love…and the hard road to resignation. All the characters are vainly consuming themselves in some sort of closed destiny, grinded by failures, rebellion or disappointment. Between laughing and crying you can easily read the helpless question about the purpose and meaning of life.
Photo credit: Tudor Predescu
