Chekhov’s jubilee
is not a jubilee of Anton Chekhov, as it may seem, though, to add to the confusion, his 150th jubilee is celebrated this year. This is a short play, a strange comedy written with almost mathematical elegance. It is considered by many as a forerunner of XXth century Theatre of Absurd.
Me and four my friends have performed this play today in a local community center. It was in Russian and collected corresponding audience, and as I told has been a sucsess. It is my first experience in actual performing, not counting 30 years of staging a scientist and 15 years of mimicking a teacher. I liked that, perhaps I find there something that I cannot find in the research. Namely: immediate result…
