Memorable Dates of Russia: Moscow to host the exhibition marking the 160th anniversary of Anton Chekhov

From August 5 to October 25, 2020, the A. A. Bakhrushin State Central Theatre Museum (Moscow) presents the exhibition "The Power of the Garden", devoted to the 160th anniversary of Anton Chekhov. The opening ceremony will be the first event in the program of the IV Theater Biennale-2020.

The exhibition project represents the idea of the Russian world in Chekhov's plays "Uncle Vanya", "The Seagull", "Three Sisters" and "The Cherry Orchard".

The exhibition is based on the new chronology of Chekhov's plays and opens with "scenes of rural life". "Uncle Vanya" is the first play that contains themes, motives, situations, symbolic images, developed in the next works, especially in "The Cherry Orchard". The exposition will help to trace the internal links and reflections that allow perceiving the cycle of classical Chekhov's plays as "one big performance" or a modern theatrical novel.

The "Power of the Garden" exhibition is a voyage to Chekhov's world. It is designed as a system of rooms in a large house. Each room spotlights a specific play and its characters.

The exposition showcases exhibits of two kinds. The artworks like sketches, drawings, models, posters, costumes, memorial items, are in the first group. The exhibition space is decorated as a birch forest which is the general symbolic motive of Chekhov's plays.

Photographs compose another group of exhibits. There is a gallery of portraits of actors as Chekhov's heroes, as well as excerpts from plays.

The exposition features the photographs of Chekhov's performances and actors from the end of the XIX century to present times.