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Landscape after the Party

Summary/Abstract: Anger, aggression, “the frustrations of a man life in times of great change,” rapaciousness, background techno, barely audible yet still drowning out voices, the play of lights accentuating the mystery of the space... All this is to be found in the new play by Dutch director Ivo van Hove – Russians! (premiere: 19 June 2011, Toneelgroep Amsterdam). The play was born through the combination of two Chekov plays: Platonov and Ivanov. The author notes that van Hove interprets the works of the Russian playwright in an innovative fashion, demonstrating how timely the issues are, and finding a portrait of the modern man in the 19th-century figures.

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