A film/live video installation

The story of Chekhov’s death is a Rashomon worthy of Kurosawa. The story of his death and the way it was viewed, the subjectivity of the observer, serves as an ironic counterpoint to the so-called objectivity of Chekhov’s writing. What is real in the realism of Chekhov’s death, and how speech can describe it, is the center of the performance.

Performers: Anna Mendelssohn, Cezary Tomaszewski, Irene Coticchio, Otmar Wagner, Radek Hewelt, Justin Poole, Claribel Koss
Voiceover: Evgeniia Lianskaya, Lena Kvadrat, Wolfgang Weitlaner, Oleg Soulimenko, Justin Poole, Samuel Machto, Olivier Brasselet, Radek Hewelt
Music and Video: Michael Strohmann; Set: Otmar Wagner, Assistanz Director: Claribel Koss
Written and directed by Yosi Wanunu
Produced by Kornelia Kilga

Co-produced by brut Wien/ Nov 25 – 29, 2009