RICARDO FRAYHA
producer | curator | cultural manager

The Chekhov Brothers is the first play about Chekhov’s youth and his relationships with his family. The genius-to-be is still full of health, vigor and joy. Young Anton has to be a bread-winner for his whole big family. He is writing for money and no one seems to be taking his short stories seriously. The great man of letters is in the process of self-discovery. A summer cottage, a summer day, the bank of a river... Two girls-in-love have come for a visit. The young people are laughing, drinking tea and vodka, sorting things out with each other... The Chekhov brothers were endowed with many talents and arouse great expectations. However only one of them happened to be able to develop his gift. Nikolai and Alexander remained nothing more than Anton Chekhov’s brothers. Alexander Galibin’s production brings up the issues of what the family bonds are supposed to mean

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ALEXANDER GALIBIN

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Born in 1955, in Saint Petersburg. In 1977, Galibin graduated from the Leningrad Institute of Theater, Music and Cinema. Between 1977 and 1979 was an actor at the Leningrad Theater. Since 1981, has been an actor at Lenfilm Studio, having played important roles in more than 30 feature films. In 1988, Galibin specializes in theater direction with Anatoli Vassiliev and, from that time until 1992, has worked at the School of Dramatic Art, which was directed by Anatoli Vassiliev. In 1992, returns to Saint Petersburg working in several important theaters in the city, such as the Mariinsky Theater, staging among others, texts by Chekhov, Ibsen, Gogol and Pushkin. Between 2000 and 2008 was director of the Novosibirsk Youth Theater, an important young theater in Russia. His shows have already been performed in the most important theaters in Russia and abroad. Since July 2008, Alexander Galibin has been the artistic director of the Stanislavski Dramatic Theater in Moscow.

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THE CHEKHOV BROTHERS

Text: Helena Gremina | Director: Alexander Galibin | Assistant director: Ramis Ibragimov | Set and Costume Design: Elizabeth Dzutseva | Light Design: Sergey Skornetsky | Assistant director: Svetlana Varfolomeyev | Cast: Stanislav Ryadinsky, Anton Semkin, Vsevolod Boldin, Alexander Panteleyev, Irina Savitskova, Anna Dubov, Daria Kolpikova | Tour coordination: Anastasia Firsova

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A production by the Stanislavsky Drama Theater and the Anton Chekhov International Theater Festival

 

Production in Brazil: prod.art.br | Production direction: Matthias Pees and Ricardo Muniz Fernandes | Technical Direction: Hideki Matsuka and Julio Cesarini | Executive production: Ricardo Frayha | Administration: Jussara Rahal | Translation and interpreter: Diego Moschkovich

Realisation: Sesc São Paulo

Partnership: Anton Chekhov International Theater Festival, Moscow

Sesc Consolação

São Paulo, SP, Brazil

13 and 14/11/2010