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“Kaleidoscope Named after Chekhov”

A premiere show of the play “Kaleidoscope Named after Chekhov” took place on October 3, 2017, in Sholokhov-Centre of the National M.A.Sholokhov Museum-Reserve.

This spectacle is about moral problems in the surrounding society, about human dignity and human values, it is a view from the outside by A.P.Chekhov to the social and personal conflicts. The theme is topical because of typicality of circumstances and accuracy of psychological portraits of the personages that the viewer can transfer into modern reality. This helps him understand why it is so and not otherwise. What principles are the personages guided by in certain situations? What motivates the person when his view changes in the changed circumstances? Like a kaleidoscope making different patterns of small multicoloured glasses, the play of actors forms patterns of destinies, situations and reflections.

It has been the fourth staging by the Comedy Theatre “Klassika” within the joint project “Theatre in Museum”. This time, the director, Honoured Actress of Russia Tatyana Malinovskaya, has focused on seven short stories by A.P.Chekhov: “Joy”, “Daddy”, “Has Gone”, “Idyll – alas and ah!”, “Commotion”, “Brer”, and “Namby-Pamby”. These stories are short and laconic, but at the same time bright and memorable. In his stories, Chekhov through humour reveals the vices of mankind – lie, stupidity, hypocrisy, envy, greed. But the author does not act as judge, he only tells small everyday stories and gives the right to draw conclusions and judge to the readers and viewers.

The performance is allowed for persons aged from 12.

Duration is 60 minutes.

The spectacle will be shown each October Tuesday, at 11.00 and 14.00, in Sholokhov-Centre (125/69 Bolshaya Sadovaya, Rostov-on-Don). Ticket order: 8(863)210-90-17.

Irina Pashkova