Litavrina, M. G. The Sound of a Broken String

Abstract: This article is a topical conversation about interpretation of A. P. Chekhov’s dram in modern world theatre and festivals of the recent years. The article analyzes concrete stage plays shown in 2010 in Moscow during the International Chekhov’s Theater Festival. The author questions whether those plays actually refl ected the main tendencies of the global Chekhov’s theatre and were a decent even in art. If so, then the plays shown during the festival create a vast fi eld for polemics – not only in the sphere of interpretation of this author in our directing practice but, which is the most important, in the sphere of established principles of the theatre festival policy in our country.

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