3 Sorelle (o L’attesa della Felicità)

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After staging Goldoni's "The Gambler" (2022), the Compagnia del Sole continues its exploration of gambling addiction by staging "Three Sisters or the Awaiting of Happiness" by Chekhov, a play that highlights the possible causes of the onset of gambling addiction. The gambling-addicted character is the brother Andrey, who is not apparently the protagonist of the story, at least not like Florindo, the Goldoni gambler, but rather the weaker and central link in the chain of narrated events. The young man, presented as a passionate violinist who wants to move to Moscow to pursue an academic career as a professor, is the one who over time suffers the most from the effects of a changed social landscape. In fact, the entire Prozorov family deals with the void of certainties that the father's death has left, but it is Andrey who, after an impulsive and wrong marriage, not withstanding such a lack of future, lets himself be sucked into gambling, awaiting happiness to knock on his door with a miraculous win that ultimately does not come. This expectation of happiness somehow characterizes most of the characters, who have confused dreams and flounder without a real perspective. Most rely on easy fixes that make their dreams founder against the rock of a reality never truly considered, eventually becoming more passive and indifferent. The story opens in a bright spring where singing, playing music, and celebrating life and the future take place: a brilliant comedy that offers hope. It closes in a sad autumn with many separations and losses, passing through a winter of exciting secrets and hidden passions and a fiery summer. Four seasons, four years, four metaphorical moments of every human being's life, captured in this refined tableau that everyone should ponder... A comedy (this is the genre in which Chekhov classified his works) that through drama, touches on tragedy. As far as I am concerned, the strength of Chekhov's writing lies in not "siding" with any character, leaving time and situations the responsibility to reveal their character, consequently in the subtle accuracy with which he entrusts essential details of actions and dialogues with the responsibility of doing so. The text is a musical score whose rhythm is often imagined by the author based on instrumental foundations he himself suggested. Gambling addiction is an issue 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 animated the artistic choices of the Compagnia del Sole: to speak to the public about the present time in order to make the theater a common ground for dialogue and reflection central to the ethical choices of daily life.
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