Screening at Time & Space Limited in HUDSON, NY.
Sunday December 22, 2024 at 2:00 PM
Stage Russia HD / Artists In Exile Presents:
THREE SISTERS
Written by Anton Chekhov
Directed by Timofey Kulyabin
Captured on film before a live audience from Novosibirsk’s Red Torch Theatre in 2018.

Anton Chekhov’s The Three Sisters probes the lives and dreams of Olga, Masha, and Irina, former Muscovites now living in a provincial town from which they’re desperate to escape. In this powerful play, a landmark of modern drama, Chekhov masterfully interweaves character and theme in subtle ways that make the work’s climax seem as inevitable as it is deeply moving.

World renowned director Timofey Kulyabin took Chekhov’s classic work and reinvented it as an epic parable about finding harmony through suffering. The entire cast, save for one, communicate throughout the performance solely in sign language. By doing this, the selfishness, isolation and lack of mutual understanding are dangerous and laden with disaster, the characters defenseless against a huge “sounding” world. Like a score, every scene is composed with sounds and noises. You can hear the wind whistling around the house, shrieking migratory birds, troops marching to marching music. Kulyabin’s sensational and endlessly beautiful adaptation is a feast for the senses, heightening all of them even as we lose some of them. Sign Language and Russian with English subtitles.

Approx 4h8m (including 2 brief intermissions).

Tickets: Non-Members $15 • TSL Members $12.50
Note: Online Ticket sales will automatically shut off about 30 minutes before the event starts.

View the trailer here:

ABOUT the director Timofey Kulyabin:
Timofey Kulyabin is a prolific theater director who works both in drama and opera. One of the best-known directors of the younger generation in Europe, he made his debut as a professional stage director at the age of 22 in 2006, and has since staged over 40 productions in Russian and European theaters, including, among many, the Bolshoi Theater and the Theater of Nations (Moscow), the Deutsches Theater (Berlin), the Schauspielhaus (Zürich), and the Residenztheater (Munich). He is known for his radically modern interpretations of classical authors, such as Chekhov, Ibsen, Pushkin, Gogol, and Strindberg. His productions are regular guests of international theater festivals, and his show Three Sisters based on Anton Chekhov’s play was awarded the Golden Mask National Theater Award and has toured dozens of countries. On May 2, 2022, the Bolshoi Theatre announced the cancellation of further performances of his adaptation of Don Pasquala. Kulyabin had left Russia due to his criticism of the Russian/Ukrainian war and is now based in Europe.

READ MORE: Interview with Timofey Kulyabin w/ Sergey Elkin, (click here).

WHAT THE PRESS IS SAYING:

“Made with a quality rare for the Russian stage, without any hints of a sketch or unfinished design. There is not a single centimeter, not a single minute, which does not work for a common purpose”,
– St Petersburg Theatrical Journal (Russia)

“A theatrical performance in which sounds and non-verbal communication form a fantastic, compelling unity in which the essence of the drama is worked out in beguiling beauty and unbelievable intensity”,
– Kurier (Germany)

ABOUT THE ARTISTS IN EXILE SERIES:
In support of the countless number of Russian artists – writers, actors, directors, choreographers, dramaturges and crew members – who either by choice or dictum are now plying their trade abroad, Art Seen Films has created the Artists in Exile Series and proudly offer their works for theatre-lovers worldwide.