A Hungarian company is presenting Chekhov's Ivanov in a 20th Century Hungarian setting. Ivanov is Chekhov's deepest, darkest, and most disturbing and shocking play. The legendary Ariane Mnouchkine is making a rare New York appearance! This Festival is quite an important theatrical event!
The Lincoln Center
Festival 09
July 7 - 26
Global Theater!
Les Éphémères, Le Théâtre du Soleil, July 7–19
To begin the season, visionary director Ariane Mnouchkine and her acting collective share life experiences and find beauty in everyday moments.
lvanov, Katona József Theatre, July 7–11
Peasant Opera, Béla Pintér and Company, July 21–26
Two Hungarian companies present radically different works: Tamás Ascher's turn at Ivanov features Chekhov’s intense title character set in 1960s and 70s Hungary, and Béla Pintér and Company performs a hilarious musical soap opera, a farcical tale of taboos and tradition in the countryside.
Kalkwerk, Narodowy Stary Teatr, July 14–18
The masterpiece of renowned Polish director Krystian Lupa brings us face to face with madness, a work rooted in psychological complexity, humanity, and stylistic innovation.
Trilogia della villeggiatura, Piccolo Teatro di Milano/Teatri Uniti di Napoli,
July 22–26
Piccolo Teatro di Milano returns to the Festival to perform this uproarious commedia dell’arte satire, starring and directed by Toni Servillo (from the film Gomorrah).
Boris Godunov, Chekhov International Theatre Festival, July 22–26
Life and Fate, Maly Drama Theatre, July 21–26
Two acclaimed theater companies arrive from Russia with deeply moving works: the Chekhov International Theatre Festival presents an exposé of corrupt Tsarist Russia and the Maly Drama Theatre follows a deranged physicist under the direction of Lev Dodin.
