A vida vai engolir-vos | Part 2

Anton Chekhov is going to swallow us up for almost ten hours. The long-length theatre returns to the city, a theatre of duration and resistance, but also of sharing and itinerancy. A Vida Vai Engolir-vos - a marathon-show that calls for the biggest plays of checkhov's repertoire - is divided into two parts that are alternately performed on the stages of Teatro Nacional São João and Teatro Rivoli. Tónan Quito is the perpetrator of this daring scenic adventure, taking us through, almost in a single breath, the plays The Seagull, Uncle Vanya Three Sisters and The Cherry Orchard, with which the Russian playwright who blazed new trails for western theatre, blurring the lines between serious and light-hearted, comedy and tragedy. In all of these plays, Chekhov confronts us with a question that has always haunted him: what will humanity be like in the future? A question that has gained a renewed urgency, now that we live in times of fear and uncertainty. "Change" is the key word of A Vida Vai Engolir-vos, stresses the director: "The shift from old to new, the failure of old practices, the liberation from old truths"...