Posibilul „după Cehov”
The Possible “after Cehov”

The Possible “after Cehov”

Summary/Abstract: The Chekhov Machine is a play in which the contemporary playwright Matei Vişniec imagines a great encounter between Chekhov – the character, who is on his deathbed and his characters who have experienced death in his plays. It is an encounter in which these characters come to teach Chekhov, the doctor, a sick person and a writer, both as one should die and, above all, the way one should live.Matei Vişniec, a playwright who practices the theatre of the absurd, considers Chekhov the real predecessor of the genre. His heroes, who are in a perpetual state of non-evolution, fumble about in a world without meaning, go nowhere, live feebly, feeling alienated and anguished, in closed spaces where the impossibility to communicate drags them in a terrible, endless state where they wait for no one and nothing. In this unbearable universe, where their own existence lacks sense, time, which seems impossible to measure, is also stuck into nothingness. The heroes, who do not know what they live for, still have wishes and disappointments, but, all of a sudden, something happens and ends their peace of mind, but only for a short while. Time passes. The heroes return to the ordinary and to boredom and they continue to drag their life “like an endless routine”.

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