In This is the End of Sleeping is a live performance for two-channel video installation, real-time audio processing and a Russian steam bath. In this is the End of Sleeping is the longest day of the year and it is a hot hot sleeplessness here—the sweat pours like rain and the water is icey cold. But when the laughing and drinking and running through the woods gives way to kissing and bathing and shooting guns… no one will escape the change.

It is deep in the age of cynicism, and with chekhov's first full length play comes a sometimes hilarious and sometimes brutal meditation on loving each other, and buying each other out.

 

In This is the End of Sleeping is based on Chekhov's unfinished / untitled 300 page fragment which the germans called Platonov after the leading role, some still argue that it might be called Fatherlessness. Fatherlessness spoken in Russian sounds like In this is the End of Sleeping to the Hebrew speaker. So arrives the title for our work. If only everyone had gone bed.

Joan Jubett as Anna Voynitsev widow of the late General Voynitsev
Gaetan Bonhomme as Sergey Voynitsev the step son of Anna Voynitsev
Vanessa Burke as Sonya Voynitsev wife of Sergey
John Dewis as Nicholas Triletsky a doctor who looks like chekhov
Eric Dean Scott as Michael Platonov a schoolteacher
Emily Knapp by Sasha Tiletsky Platonov wife of Michael Platonov
Caleb Hammond as Porfiry Glagolyev businessman, suitor to Anna, realestate guy
Dan Liston as Isaac Vengerovich is the son of Abraham Vengerovich handsome jewish kid
Eliza bent as Jacob is the servant of the Voynitsevs