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Platonov
By Anton Chekhov
German translation by Ulrike Zemme
Schauspiel Stuttgart
Premiere 2 October 2005
Platonov © David Graeter
With Chekhov’s early play “Platonov”, Karin Henkel achieves a detailed and lifelike portrait of a bankrupt, stagnating society longingly awaiting better times. With great invention and an unbridled love of detail the director finds a whole series of sparks of wit and life amid the boredom of even the most contemptible everyday life. The production is a persuasive ensemble performance based around Felix Goeser as the drunken, cynical, heady and sensual village schoolteacher Platonov. A discovery!
Cast
Directed by – Karin Henkel
Stage Design – Stefan Mayer
Costume Design – Klaus Bruns
Dramaturgy – Kekke Schmidt
Lighting Design – Roland Edrich
Anna Petrovna Voyniseva – Anja Brünglinghaus
Sergei Pavlovich Voynitsev, her son – Thomas Eisen
Sofia Yegorovna, his wife – Silja Bächli
Porfiri Semyonovich Glagolyev 1 – Elmar Roloff
Kirill Porfirjevich Glagolyev 2, his son – Peter Sikorski
Maria Jefimovna Grekova – Ursula Renneke
Ivan Ivanovich Triletsky – Reinhold Ohngemach
Nikolai Ivanovich Triletsky, his son – Martin Leutgeb
Abram Abramovich Vengerovich 1 – Bernhard Baier
Isaak Abramovitsch Vengerovich 2 – Christian Brey
Timofei Gordeyevich Bugrov – Boris Burgstaller
Mikhail Vassilyevich Platonov – Felix Goeser
Aleksandra Ivanovna (Sasha), his wife – Anna Windmüller
Ossip – Jonas Fürstenau
Child – Marvin Spannfellner / Alexander Weber