Vanya x Vanya (Season ticket)

When I see a performance of one of my shows, I always want to re-stage it. If only I had decided to do this instead of that, if only we had gone this way instead of that way. That’s when I envy painters, who can go back to the same motif over and over again. Or musicians, who can play their B-sides, their rarities, their early versions of a song. I often find that it’s not the end result that’s most interesting, but the different approaches, the different attempts. T.S. Eliot said that every poem is “a different kind of failure”. Wouldn't it be interesting to see a director tackle a play not once, but twice? Or the same actor searching for the same character twice?

There are many ways to approach this play, but Vanya x Vanya aims to present just two. I’m not saying that either one is complete, that either one is definitive. But they will be examples of just how fertile Chekhov’s text is: Vanya, that pure enigma, will still be there, waiting for the right questions.

Pablo Remón

Vanya x Vanya is a project made up of two works.

Two different approaches to the same text: Chekhov’s Uncle Vanya, rewritten in two new and quite original versions, in totally different styles. Two independent plays, performed by the same actors.

Vanya (version 1) – Fernando Arrabal Hall B – 6pm
A naked, essential Chekhov. A minimalist approach to the text and the acting.
 

Vanya (version 2) – Fernando Arrabal Hall A – 8:30pm
A rewriting of Chekhov in two periods: Russia, at the end of the 19th century; Castile, today.
A play. How does the original play dialogue with an updated rewrite? How are the questions raised by the original play still relevant today?
 

WARNING TO THE AUDIENCE: SEASON TICKETS ARE ONLY VALID FOR THE TWO PERFORMANCES ON THE SAME DAY AND UNTIL FULL CAPACITY IS REACHED.