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Alejandro Tantanian, based on motifs from "The Idiot" by Fedor Dostoevski
Director/Music selection
Alejandro Tantanian
Set/ costume design
Oria Puppo
Lighting design
Jorge Pastorino
Cast
Nastasia Filipovna Barashkov
Mar�a In�s Sancerni
Lev Nikolaievich Myshkin, prince
Nahuel P�rez Biscayart
Parfion Semionovitch Rogojin, Nastasia�s suitor
Luciano Suardi
Production
Alejandro Tantanian,
Buenos Aires
Photo exhibition
Ernesto Donegana
Production assistent
Mart�n Tufr�
Graphic design
Gonzalo Mart�nez
Photographer
Ernesto Donegana
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Duration: appr. 70 minutes, no interval
Characters appear and disappear like shapes in Alejandro Tantanian�s theatrical universe. A woman is pursued by the love of two men. A large guy has to give up after a last passionate outburst. This woman is out of reach for him, and likewise for the thin boy who also speaks of his love for her. Only words remain, in layers, become thoughts and charge up the atmosphere in the room. It is just like Dostoevsky�s novels, a heart-breaking fiction. A spiritual � not in the religious sense � exploration of the multivocality invented by Dostoevsky. Dramatist and director Tantanian uses significant excerpts from �The Idiot� which are closely related to the lives of the actors. From this subtle network the main character of the performance emerges. This character, like so many in Dostoevsky�s novels, is finely drawn, amazingly realistic, almost tangible and yet out of reach: it is called �I� and struggles with its existence and death.
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