[Eric]

I am not a great fan of the theatre, but a few playwrights such as Strindberg (late plays) and Gombrowicz stand out for me as special. Plus Tadeusz Kantor. And Chekhov.

My favourite play is, I think, Three Sisters. It's such a long time since I saw the play that I cannot remember exactly why, but it's got something to do with the pace, the rhythm of the play. And strange Chekhovian things, like shots offstage. I've seen it on TV and perhaps once in the theatre. What is also intriguing is the lassitude of provincial Russian life in those days, and the aspirations and dreams of people, who are comfortably off, yet yearn for something more stimulating. Moscow as that place far away, the capital, a kind of paradise.

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