«UNCLE VANYA» after a play by Anton Chekhov | world premiere
A collaboration of the Pacific Festival and the Primorsky Regional Drama Youth Theater
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One of the key projects of the IV Pacific International Theatre Festival in Vladivostok will be a joint production by the Primorsky Regional Youth Theatre and Brazilian director Ada Luana.
Ada Luana is a director, playwright, actress, theatre theorist, and teacher. At the University of Brasilia, she is researching contemporary female playwrights. Her research also focuses on the propagation and implementation of Stanislavsky's system in Brazilian theatre.
In 2008, Ada Luana co-founded the theatre company "Setor de Areas Isoladas." There, she began her work on a trilogy project based on plays by Anton Chekhov. To Moscow! Palimpsest was performed as part of the second edition of the Pacific Festival in Vladivostok and the XVI Chekhov International Theatre Festival in Moscow in 2023. The second part of the trilogy, Jupiter and the Seagull. It's Impossible to Live Without Theatre!, was performed at the Alexandrinsky Theatre Festival in St. Petersburg in 2024. The third play, Uncle Vanya, will be staged in collaboration with the Primorsky Regional Drama Youth Theater troupe and presented at the Pacific Festival in 2026.
This production is a clear example of the Pacific Festival's efforts to foster the long-term development of theatre in the region, professional exchange between Russia and the BRICS countries, and gaining new experience and knowledge by the local theatre community.
The project is already underway: Ada Luana, along with her movement coach, Marcia Duarte, flew to Vladivostok to meet the actors and cast the roles. The first stage of production was a period of active immersion in the creative process. According to the director, it was especially important for her to get to know and understand the nature of her new actors, so she suggested they use the etude method and prepare their own sketches. As a result, two casts were selected for Uncle Vanya. The production promises to be somewhat different from a classical one, but Ada Luana is bringing to the work both her knowledge and her love of Russian culture.