Ivanov at Les Théâtres de la Ville de Luxembourg

Authors

• Simon Stone

Chekhov is the master of finding the humour in our suffering and the crisis lurking underneath our joy. A mercurial magician of character drama, he elevates the seemingly banal to the sublime and then pops the balloon just as it's getting too poetic. As the mighty Jean Renoir said in his film The Rules of the Game, ‘everyone has their reasons'. During his career as a doctor Chekhov developed a deep empathy and curiosity for his fellow human, and his writing beats with the heart of a great humanist. The characters are gifts to complex, versatile actors: existence writ messily and lovingly, an ode to imperfection.