Ivanov Theatre
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Representation
In 2019-2020, Myriam Muller, an artist associated with the Théâtres de la Ville, staged Chekhov's Ivanov with a stellar team of French, Belgian, and Luxembourgish artists. Her production, revived this season, is based on an earlier, more comic and violent version of the text from 1887, sometimes written in a crude style. This early, burlesque work caused a scandal at the time, and Chekhov later revised it.
Ivanov is a landowner riddled with debt. Married to Anna Petrovna, a Jewish woman, he can no longer bear her, even though she is dying of tuberculosis. He seeks refuge with an old alcoholic friend, Lebedev, whose wife lends him money and whose daughter, Sasha, is in love with him. After his wife's death, Ivanov decides to remarry Sasha. He, who in his youth wanted to change the world, now has no strength left. In a society where existence is defined by work, money, and social success, Ivanov, the embittered intellectual, reduced by disillusionment and misfortune to an inactive debtor, is one of the superfluous.
A scathing portrait of a decaying provincial petty bourgeoisie, stupid, mean, hypocritical and eager for gossip to feed its emptiness, Ivanov is an illustration of the drama of modern man, worn down by his excess of lucidity and by the cruel banality of the world.
Where does it take place?
Grand Théâtre de Luxembourg
Grand Théâtre de la Ville de Luxembourg
Luxembourg
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