The Three Sisters show
Benescu Vlad & Ionuț Anghel
The Three Sisters show is a performance created following a working process that took place over approximately 4-5 years. The project rediscovers the aesthetics of collage
Over the course of two years, we met in the house where one of us lived to discuss lines from Chekhov’s plays in which his characters philosophized, that is, sat and discussed what life would be like in a hundred years. Looking back on the process, we don’t know how much we served the questions in the Russian playwright’s texts or whether we abandoned them, preoccupied with our own questions about the meaning of creation or even our own existence.
“What would it be like to know that you have another two hundred years to live from now on?
You’d take it easy.
– What do you mean, take it easy? Would I go home and go to bed right now?
– Just like you now, at this moment, you have the impression that you will live for another 50 years or so.
– Now… maybe you wouldn’t even be here…
– You spend the first 50 years of your life traveling…
– No, but at this point I know I have another 50 years to live.
– At this point?
– At this point.
(Pause)
– Right.
– If I knew I had 200 years to live, what would I do? Wouldn’t I still be here?
– You’d go to a certain place because, from this point, you’re the sum of the fact that you know you don’t have 200 years to live.
– Well, yes, yes. Exactly.
– Yes, but what I’m saying is totally crazy.
– It’s not crazy.
– No, in the sense that when you’re younger, you don’t know how long you’re going to live. You don’t ask yourself that question.
– No, you don’t. From a certain age.
– A. And what? That you wouldn’t think about it for much longer. That’s what would happen here.
– Yes, definitely. That’s what I thought too. That you would avoid it.
Excerpt from the many discussions that led nowhere.
The show will take place at Green Hours, starting 9 p.m.
