SIMON STONE: STRATEGY OF DIRECTING READING OF A. P. CHEKHOV'S PLAY "THREE SISTERS"
The article is focused on the newest rewriting of Chekhov’s play ‘Three sisters’ which was made by the director Simon Stone at Basel’ Theatre in 2016. The performance of Simon Stone is the case which shows how it could be possible to transport the classical text into contemporary time and new social circumstances and at the same time to save original composition and structure (so called ‘orchestration’). Stone rewrote the play in words and phrases and adapted it to up-to-date European reality. But it didn’t destroy the main issue of the play and its melancholic mood which is considered to be about separation of the people and their loneliness described by Chekhov. The performance also actualized the technique of psychological approach in theatre and demonstrates how precisely the waves of the soul and body can be fixed and reflected by this method.