About the performance
In The Chekhov , three performers wait through a series of crises, an endlessly changing series of scenarios, that move constantly between comedy and tragedy.
Waiting for Greta Thunberg to solve the climate crisis.?
Waiting for Ukraine to win the war, still.?
Waiting for Bergen to open a ramen shop.
The Chekhov re-composes the themes and narrative structure of Anton Chekhov’s 1901 play Three Sisters to connect to the present post-Covid bewilderment, ecological and humanitarian crises, and the ‘contemporary experience’. The ‘contemporary experience’ is widely held to stem from a profound sense of uncertainty or shock in the face of the unimaginable, resulting in a loss of fixed points of reference where neither the world nor the self any longer possesses unity, coherence, or meaning.
About the artist
Australian Nicola Gunn is a Bergen-based artist working between contemporary performance, choreography, writing and pedagogy. Her works have been presented in venues and festivals across 19 countries. Her works tend to complicate the relationship between herself, the material and the audience, and the slippages between the body on stage and text – whether written or spoken.
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Tickets
University of Oslo employees can buy tickets for NOK 150 (regular price is NOK 395). The offer is valid until 1 June when using this link.