Platonov

The youth of this Platonov – self portrait of a collective of actors seen through the eyes of Chekhov – struck everyone who saw it in May of 2012 and then again in January, 2013 at the Théâtre de Vanves, by it’s accuracy.  The play is both a fable and a celebration : a torrent of energy that bursts forth only to be consumed,  momentum that must come to grips with its own consequences, or, to quote the director « a certain “full” emptiness ».  For Benjamin Porée, this emptiness is shown with its greatest acuteness « in the gaze of youth, on the face of Platonov. »  The questioning and self-examination of a handful of provincial Russians at the end of the 19th century, their loves and their utopias, their ambitions and their idleness, such are a few of the traits that Porée and his actors pluck out as if they were the live nerves of « this living matter that is life, or more simply, as the unpolished state of the real »