Un Hombre Que Se Ahoga July 17, 2007

Lincoln Center Festival presents a new adaptation of Chekhov's 'The Three Sisters' performed by Proyecto Chejov and directed by Daniel Veronese, artistic director of Argentina's celebrated theater company Perifericos de Objetos. The director takes a bold approach to staging his version of Chekov's iconic play by reversing the gender of the characters. The actors make no attempt to assume gestures reflecting the gender they are playing. It is the women who make decisions and the men who wait. All of the characters, however, as in Chekhov's time, live within the confines of their own dissatisfaction. There is no music, no theatrical lighting, no costumes and no makeup. The twelve actors perform in street clothes, and there are no entrances or exits. Bereft of technical effects or scenery, the work is seen through words and actions that often seem on parallel tracts. This imaginative adaptation captures Chekhovian themes relating to the tedium of provincial life. This show is performed in Spanish with English supertitles.