Anton Chekhov

Man‘s Teardrop

Directed by Aleksandar Popovski

Ljuba Tadic Main Stage Saturday, 09. november 20:00
  • (S)2000 RSD
  • (B)600 RSD
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Duration 1h 50min no interval
PREMIÈRE 12.10.2024.

The Tears of Men is a working title for a collage piece based on the motifs from four one-act plays – A Joke, A Marriage Proposal, The Bear and Tatiana Repina – and a short story On the Road by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov. The characters in this stage play have suffered in love, they are lost in time and trapped in a tavern during an apocalyptic storm. Being thus forced to spend time together encourages conflict, sombre reminiscences and the text is infused with the author’s ironic tone. The common denominator in the selected pieces is the crumbling of the male characters which ends in tears that, even today, are seen as a sign of inappropriate weakness in men who end up being stigmatised and forced to maintain a stiff upper lip. Chekhov described these pieces as vaudevilles even though he was very much aware of the emotional and existential depths lurking in each one of them. The elements of comedy are, on the one hand, a natural consequence of the mundane and ordinary, but are also a progressive and remain a modern commentary on the part of Chekhov on the banality and short sightedness of male chauvinism and the patriarchy as a social order. The storm itself is a metaphor for the chaos, pandemonium and wars of our modern times and it represents everything that will eventually and inevitably come to the surface if tears are held back and pride and shame are the order of the day, all to avoid a show of “weakness” in men.

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