Rehearsal for “Uncle Vanya”

The voluntary theatrical “Alfa Team” presents at the Cultural Center of Michael Cacoyannis Foundation, the “Rehearsal for Uncle Vanya”, a performance based on the classic masterpiece by Anton Chekhov. It is a play lyrical, modern, with crucial contemporary ecological messages. A truly human play, in which life balances between drama and comedy and emerges as the essential leading role.

At the same time, all the fundamental issues of existence pass before the spectator’s eyes with lighting speed: god, human, nature, love, death, time, end of youth, friendship, betrayal and so many others…

The language is the everyday one and direct, however, the feelings are being transmitted indirectly. What is never expressed verbally has equal value, or bigger importance than those that the characters attempt to express. All the heroes are characterized by an individual “blank space”. They stop for discoveries, the relieve their feelings throughout a crisis, but they never reach the reason.

Symptoms: frustration, boredom, colourless life. The real creativity, life’s very meaning, lacks. In their psychological position, there is always the controversy in between desire and action. They want, but they cannot. Everybody is waiting for the other person’s move, or action. The play’s individuals recognize their present as if it was a “life rehearsal” and postpone their hopes for an uncertain, better future.

The play is being adjusted to nowadays modern reality with great similarities: Like it happens in our own present, accordingly the same conditions are being described in the play as well. In an era of natural resources wasting, in a world where values and visions depart, where psychological health and integrity are being dangerously challenged, in this environment of depression and degeneracy, no one of the play’s characters can fight against the circumstances and fatally is being isolated, almost voluntarily, apart from the right in life and happiness. What about us?