”What With They Went to Moscow?” is the continuity of the research on the relation between theater and cinema on the scene, and of the transposition of the classics to the contemporary reality. The adaptation brings the protagonism of the play to focus on the characters of “The Three Sisters”. The basis of dramaturgy is the text of Anton Tchekhov “The Three Sisters” and the utopia they create about this “other place” called Moscow. It is the mirror game between theater and cinema. Happening simultaneously in two distinct spaces, the cinematographic images are captured in the theater by three cameras that are integrated to the scene. The film is assembled live and sent to another space, a movie theater, the instant the audio is being mixed. Theater and cinema are happening in the present time, but seen in different spaces and viewpoints. The challenge is to build two works that exist fully in their territories, but which complement each other when viewed by the same viewer as a unique work. The presence of the cameras needs to be absorbed by the dramaturgy of the scene, since the video projection happen in another environment. Each camera is related to one of the sisters. Irina, the youngest, has a camera she herself uses, which is more documentary. Olga, the most static, has a camera that is only moved on the tripod and has the function of revealing the house – the architecture of the space and the most open frames – and Macha lovingly relates to her camera. In the theater, Macha’s relationship is with the cameraman, who looks through the viewer, so that in the cinema her look can be directed directly to the camera / lover. In this way, the look of this character, and his desire, is for what it is – for the public, for the cinema. The audience of the theater also has two layers of performance – real and fictional – as the actresses. The viewers are themselves and also the party guests – and sometimes movie extras. The technicians are also integrated into the action, and move the set / stage, the tripods and cables in the theater, being characters from the movie and from Irina’s party. Everything in the theater is apparent and in the service of the scene to realize the film, that has no pre-filmed image. Premiered at Espaço Sesc Copacabana (Rio de Janeiro, march 2014) and at Sesc Belenzinho (São Paulo, july 2014). Won the awards Shell 2015 for best direction and best actress (Stella Rabello), APTR 2015 Award for best direction, Questão de crítica – best direction 2015, Questão de crítica – best show 2015.

The Wooster Group’s production of Anton Chekhov’s Three Sisters, translated by Paul Schmidt and directed by Elizabeth LeCompte, with performances from Kate Valk, Peyton Smith, Scott Shepherd, Ari Fliakos, Anna Kohler, Beatrice Roth, Ron Vawter, and Willem Dafoe. This presentation of the 2003 production of BRACE UP!, designed by Ken Kobland and LeCompte, incorporates close-up recordings of the performers simultaneously with continuous wide-angle footage. Review by Ben Brantley on the New York Times:

挑战不可演的契诃夫 颠覆戏剧大师技惊各地 「引人入胜，面目全非地与契诃夫面对面」《金融时报》 1917年正值俄国革命，戏剧泰斗契诃夫的姊姊，把弟弟的一些剧本收在保险箱里。1921年，俄国学者发现一份契诃夫的手稿，因缺了第一页，这份剧本变成了没有剧名的一出戏。事实上，这个作品结构庞大，枝叶繁杂、角色及情节纠缠不清，像真实的人生一样，被公认为是契诃夫无法被搬上舞台的剧本。 正点剧团偏向难度挑战，拿起这部契诃夫的处女作，创作了得奖作品《契诃夫处女作》。契诃夫恒常探讨的生死、无聊、抑郁、失败的婚姻和对改变的渴望等一系列主题，由演员在纷乱的舞台上，交织出一幕幕层次丰富的戏中戏，观众同时戴着耳机看戏，还听到别开生面的导演现场评述。观众眼看耳听，两个层次的重叠与冲突，反照众声喧哗的当代社会景况。 自2015年首演以来，《契诃夫处女作》已于11个国家的艺术节及剧院上演，好评不绝。

根据契诃夫的同名短篇小说改编。获嘎纳电影节Catholic奖。 The story of a province hospital doctor in czarist Russia, who spends his days aimlessly, losing his will even for regular work. One day, in Department for mental diseases, the Pavillion VI, he meets his former student, rebellious, with restles spirit. Attracted with, by his own judgement, original ideas of his patient, the doctor spends great deal of his time with him and, letting himself to meditations, loses touch with reality. People around him laugh at him at start, and in the end, he finishes his life tragically in Pavillion VI. Screening of the synonymous Anton Chekhov's novel. This film won the Catholic Jury Prize at Cannes.

Tormented by the worthlessness and boredom of life, the official Laevsky longs to break the vicious circle of his existence at any cost. His moral antipode, the naturalist Von Koren, is convinced that people like Laevsky are worthy of destruction. But, contrary to the wishes and will of the heroes, providence decides their fates in its own way.

В статье о чеховских фильмах 1971 года Т. Шах-Азизова написала: "Экранизация "Чайки", сделанная Карасиком, получилась досадно холодной и иллюстративной… В картине выбивается вперед то, что сильнее: в стилистике - проза, в настроении - вялость, среди людей не поэт Треплев, не "чайка" Заречная, а умная хищница Аркадина, с жестокой точностью сыгранная Демидовой". Во всем соглашаясь с этой оценкой, попробуем все же чуть уточнить ее - сформулируем то же немного иначе: "Выбивается вперед то, что сильнее: не "чайка" Заречная, а "чайка" Аркадина". Впрочем, нетрудно предвидеть и недоумения: Аркадина - чайка? Да полноте… Алла Демидова по поводу роли в фильме Карасика публично не высказывалась, интервью не давала. Сошлюсь поэтому на слова, сказанные ею вроде бы между делом, для печати не предназначавшиеся, но отношение актрисы к образу в них выражено со всех определенностью.

Adaption of the 1887 one act play by Anton Chekhov . Shot at Criterion Theatre, Jermyn Street, St James's, London, England, UK Swan Song was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Live Action Short Film

Adapted from “Huntsman” and “A Misfortune” by Anton Chekhov

The second Menshikov's part in Chekhov's stories' screen versions was performed in the film by Kiev director Vyacheslav Krishtofovich. Before Krishtofovich has been shooting films about common people of ordinary life. He liked leisurely flow of days and prepared his heroes for the explosion which occurred closer to the end. The sparkles of it are usually concealed in the relations between the characters until it flared up showing their new faces. Then everything cooled down and went on the usual way. But the scars from the burns remained. Forever. Vyacheslav Krishtofovich and cameraman Vasiliy Trushkovsky interpreted this story in dark and cold colors, and that gave the film the shade of gloomy thoughtfulness: why rush about in the row of grey days? Anyway nobody loves each other; everything is vague, instant, and unstable. Only pain remains… Menshikov played Volodya as if a bit lazily, slowly, trying not to spend himself too much, because after all everything had no sense. And in love scenes he lived as if on some other planet, not willing to shorten the distance between him and Sofia Lvovna, not letting the events develop forcefully. In other words, he kept distance between him and life. Repulsion from reality - this Chekhov's motif turned out to be the closest for the actor who felt the nature of Chekhov's type… …Menshikov gains revenge when he sings "Mountain Peaks" with Sofia Lvovna. During these moments Volodya breaks free from the everyday life which usually blew out his best impulses. He tries to believe in the freedom from everything that surrounds and will surround him. Soft baritone sounds as a prayer, as a final confession, as a defeated hope: "You just wait a little, and you'll have some rest…" The soul longs for sympathy, salvation, peace… Volodya sings-tells that our earthly existence is something to be endured and accepted. Through Lermontov's lines, through the music, the sense of life returns to Volodya, he feels and sees its mystical ornament in blending of tragedy and beauty.

故事发生在曼哈顿的大学城，三个姐妹和一个弟弟一直怀念自己在查尔斯顿时的简单的家庭生活。在父亲去世后，四个人坦诚相对，想重新找回以往的美好时光……

该片描写一位男孩子随着舅父和神甫到城里读书过程中的所见所闻。在穿过大草原时，他遇到了形形色色的人物，为神秘宽广的大草原而惊讶。

Chekov's Uncle Vanya, transposed to turn-of-the-century North Wales, where the peace and tranquility of a country house is disturbed by the arrival of the estate's tyrannical owner and his American wife.

契诃夫《决斗》改编

Comédie en quatre actes d'Anton Tchekhov, créée en 1904, mise en scène par Peter Brook et enregistrée au théâtre des Bouffes du Nord.

电影改编自屠格涅夫的小说《初恋》，讲的是弗拉基米尔在莫斯科附近度过夏天，他爱上了一个女孩子，可是她竟然和自己的父亲陷入爱河……