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Guillermo Calder�n
Director
Guillermo Calder�n
Set design
Ma. Jes�s Gonz�lez �
Pilar Landerretche
Costume design
Chino Gonz�lez
Music
Tom�s Gonz�lez
Cast
Jorge Becker
Trinidad Gonz�lez
Paula Z��iga
Production
Teatro en el blanco und Jenny Romero, Santiago
Director�s assistant
Catalina Ly�n
Graphic Design
Manuel Florencio
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Duration: appr. 75 minutes, no interval
Olga is desperate. The famous actress is struggling for words. The role simply won�t come to her. Chekhov�s �Cherry Orchard� is being rehearsed. She herself, Chekhov�s widow, has taken on the lead role. Masha, his sister, and a young star, Aleko, are also present. Nobody else has made it to the theatre. Outside the revolution is shedding blood. Inside everybody is overwhelmed by their emotions: Aleko quickly confesses his secret love for Olga, and Masha wants to take up arms and fight for justice. Olga can�t concentrate. The theatre is at an end. This is where Guillermo Calder�n�s play starts: the young Chilean dramatist elegantly and expertly combines authentic biographical material, quotes from Tolstoy, Dostoevsky and Chekhov and eye-witness accounts, and enables the three forlorn people on stage to act magically. This, on the one hand, is as troubling and comic as in one of Chekhov�s own dramas. On the other hand, it takes the audience out of the theatre, into the personal, the political, the present and reveals the power that theatre has.
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