Marrying a beneficial Jewish lady out of great and you can good like, Ivanov risked destroying their reputation, but those to your are convinced he performed so from mercantile considerations. Since if good bird, decide to try, still tries to rise up, to break until the light, nevertheless the future relationship which have Sasha continues to be believed an enthusiastic alliance “of calculation.” Even 1st partner, Anna (Sarah), ends believing your in advance of dying, last but most certainly not least therefore really does Sasha. Ivanov (actor Petras Venslovas) is none in a position to reveal to themselves nor adapt himself for the purchase to restore were not successful connections which have the individuals to your. The latest chilling religious catastrophe ir found tersely. Ivanov isn’t verbal, he will not talk much. Since if he was in fact “fragmented,” concealing their religious condition. The guy knows none how exactly to justify nor establish they, which is hence increasingly fragile. Impotent not simply from the Borkins, however, impotent to own his wife, Sasha, too. Creating not really the slightest pastime, Ivanov in the 1st world of enjoy will not also understand guides (as script says). Merely has just he had been effective and you will talented, however now, mindless gaze fixed to your upcoming, he gnaws on an apple ambivalently. It’s just not coincidental one to, half-jokingly, Borkin will not section new firearm at the Ivanov, as with Chekhov, but within doc Lvov. Nevertheless the take to doesn’t ring ahead throughout the finale, both, once again given that software states. The fresh character of the enjoy will disappear more sluggish sufficient reason for challenge.
The scale of colours of the yellow and you may black of the carriage remember the funereal bier where Ivanov and you will Sasha’s like was buried, and later, at the conclusion of the gamble, both Ivanovs also, their fate
Brand new maximalist director grabbed you to definitely whole plan of your energy regarding “Ivanov” and elevated they to the world out of visions, one irreal traveling carriage away from expectations. This can be like an enthusiastic ironic paradox for the trip out-of Nikolai Gogol’s around three stallions, the newest “troika.” Here new carriage flies Ivanov to the pleased property out of Sasha, even if in fact it isn’t rushing everywhere and you will isn’t really flying some one. It is caught, frozen, brand new reins enjoys dropped slack…
The entire visual, plastic and you may songs structure away from “Ivanov” keeps an effective mental impact. Just as psychologically, about hooting of your own owl (Chekhov’s opinion) extremely is provided the fresh beat of your mournful Jewish prayer, revealing Anna’s (Sarah’s) tragedy. The new hooting of owl together with sounds of the tragic kaddish pursue Anna (brand new actress Ruta Staliliunaite), reminding us that she, though baptized, possess however failed to totally disregard the spirit 
off the lady ancestors.
This new manager redacts the text of enjoy and it also finishes that have penultimate scene on the gamble. Ivanov reduced offers from the ground including a hopeless, mistreated boy. Someone who keeps inebriated this new cup his destiny to the past get rid of. Possibly he’s moved aggravated, and perhaps in addition to he’s wise, having wishing himself having low-lives. “Where try Matthew? Assist your capture myself home,” he requires, with you to shoe out-of and somehow unsuccessfully dressed up, after that drops silent. He’s hushed near to Anna in identical funeral auto. One another silent, fulfilled. This new dreams of life keeps receded.
It’s since if the latest director let me reveal continued the new dramatization dear from the Chekhov of busted audio sequence, sometimes “heard” in a few away from their plays
Various other products off “Ivanov” I’ve seen, I have never seen particularly a hard and you may tragic Anna as the one produced by the latest manager plus the actress Ruta Staliliunaite, a keen Anna who’s the newest comparable to Ivanov (perhaps except for the celebrity Konstantsiya Royek on Moscow’s Absolutely nothing Theater, who chose a similar roadway). This new apparently few outlines didn’t avoid indicating the brand new profundity associated with woman’s drama. Enjoying and you may notice-sacrificing, daring and you can irresolute, she illuminates the latest have fun with a religious white. Actually “directing herself,” Ruta Staliliunaite managed to meld mental, psychological and you can real expression on the a final tragic portrait. By-the-way, Nekrosius repeatedly recommended so you can actors it generate their letters on their own.