3 Sorelle, on stage la Compagnia del Sole

After the staging of Goldoni's The Gamester (2022), the Compagnia del Sole continues its exploration of gambling addiction by presenting Chekhov's Three Sisters or the Wait for Happiness, a play that highlights the possible causes of developing a gambling addiction. The gambling addict character is the brother Andrej, who is seemingly not the protagonist of the story, at least not like Florindo, the Goldonian player, but rather the weaker and more central link in the chain of narrated events. The young man, portrayed as a passionate violinist who wants to go to Moscow to pursue an academic career as a professor, is the one who eventually suffers the most from the effects of a changed social landscape. In reality, the entire Prozorov family deals with the void of certainty left by the father’s death, but it is Andrej who, after an impulsive and mistaken marriage, unable to cope with such an absence of future, lets himself be sucked into gambling, waiting for happiness to knock on his door with a miraculous win that ultimately never comes. This wait for happiness somehow characterizes most of the characters, who have confused dreams and shuffle without a real perspective. Most rely on easy solutions that make their dreams wreck against the rock of a reality never truly considered, ending up becoming increasingly passive and indifferent. The story opens in a bright spring where life and the future are sung, played, and celebrated: a brilliant comedy that gives cause for hope. It closes in a sad autumn with many separations and losses, passing through a winter of exciting secrets and hidden passions and a burning summer. Four seasons, four years, four metaphorical moments of every human being's life, which are captured in this refined fresco on which everyone should reflect… A comedy (this is the genre where Chekhov classified his works) that, by passing through drama, comes to touch tragedy. As far as I'm concerned, the strength of Chekhov's writing lies in not "taking sides" with any character, leaving time and situations the responsibility to reveal their character, consequently in the subtle punctuality with which he entrusts essential details of actions and dialogues with this responsibility. The play is a musical score whose rhythm is often imagined by the author based on instrumental foundations suggested by himself. Gambling addiction is a problem that closely concerns today's society, considering that in 2022 in Italy, about 130 billion euros were spent on gambling. The Mind the G.A.P. project fits perfectly into the vocation that has always driven the artistic choices of the Compagnia del Sole: to speak to the audience of the present time in a way that makes theater a common ground for dialogue and central reflection in the ethical choices of daily life.
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