The German Theatre is pleased to announce a new premiere, the first of this season - The Cherry Orchard by A.P. Chekhov, directed by Volker Schmidt - which will take place on Friday, October 28, 2022, starting at 7.30 pm.

"The Cherry Orchard is the Russian author's last major text, which he wrote before his untimely death. He described it as a comedy, in fact a satire on human nature and destiny. It is a text about wasted lives, about the illusion and errors of love: Liubov Ranevskaya loves the man who stole her last money, Varya loves the upstart Lopakhin, the eternal student Trofimov loves Ania. "The cherry orchard, whose beauty is enchanting in the first act of the play, represents a home, a childhood and a youth without a hail, while its recurrent blossoming always seems to be the guarantee of a new beginning, of the constant renewal of life. But in the end, reality catches up with everyone.
Austrian author, actor and director Volker Schmidt has staged plays at the Wiener Festwochen, Staatstheater Hannover, Darmstadt, Schauspielhaus Vienna, Moscow and Copenhagen, among others. In 2015 he worked for the first time at DSTT, where he staged his own text, Eigentlich schön, - "Actually it's beautiful". To date, his plays have been translated into ten languages and performed in numerous countries.

Asked about his production of Cherry Orchard and Chekhov, he replied:
"Chekhov gives the insignificant and the accidental the same space as the blows of fate and the profound achievements of the characters. The juxtaposition of the banal and the great is what we as humans experience every day. Yet Chekhov never judges his characters. Rather, he simply shows us that in each moment we have the opportunity to decide in what setting we want to continue our lives, whether we remain trapped in the minutiae of everyday life or succeed in giving our lives a fulfillment that goes beyond satisfying personal needs."

Chekhov's biography/Anton Chekhov
For Russian-American writer Vladimir Nabokov, Anton Chekhov, born in southern Russia in 1860, was the author whose works he would take on a journey to another planet. Chekhov came from a petit-bourgeois background, studied medicine in Moscow after graduating from high school and published stories in newspapers and magazines from 1880. By 1903, he had published over 600 literary works, including the great dramas Ivanov, Uncle Vanya, The Seagull, Three Sisters and, a year before his death, The Cherry Orchard. An early play, long considered destroyed, was not discovered until the 1920s and given the title Platonov. Suffering from tuberculosis since his youth, Chekhov died of the consequences of the disease in 1904 in the German town of Badenweiler in the Black Forest. He is regarded as one of the most important modern playwrights and writers.

Cast: Ioana Iacob, Alma Diaconu, Oana Vidoni, Bülent Özdil, Marc Illich, Rareș Hontzu, Olga Török, Niko Becker, Aida Olaru, Franz Kattesch, Ida Jarcsek-Gaza, Richard Hladik.

The performance will be subtitled in Romanian and English. Tickets can be bought at the box office of the German Theatre, or from the Entertix ticket network.

More details here: https://www.teatrulgerman.ro/ro/reprezentatii/livada-de-vi%C8%99ini/