

# Event Details

- **Event Name**: Approaching Chekhov:  An Open Rehearsal 
- **Event Start and End Date**: Sun, 22 Jun, 2025 at 05:00 pm
- **Event Description**: Just how do actors go about approaching Chekhov?
What techniques do they employ to unlock the masterful plays of this Russian Master?
Join us for an open rehearsal of Chekhov’s Seagull and get a glimpse of the process behind scene work.  
Free event. All welcome. 

The open rehearsal is a culmination of a week long workshop lead by Brian Kulick with actors; Björk Guðmundsdóttir, Brynhildur Guðjónsdóttir, Julia Hannam, María Ellingsen, 
Ólafur Guðmundsson, Pálína Jónsdóttir, Rósa Guðný Þórsdóttir, Þórey Eyrarrós Sólrúnar Sigþórsdóttir. 

Brian Kulick is a director, writer, producer, educator, and current Chair of the Graduate Theatre Program at Columbia University. He has been the Artistic Director of Classic Stage Company where he directed Galileo with F. Murray Abraham, The Tempest with Mandy Patinkin, and The Forest with Dianne Weist. He commissioned and co-directed poet Anne Carson's award-winning An Oresteia, collaborated with composer Duncan Sheik on productions of Brecht’s Caucasian Chalk Circle, Man’s A Man, and Mother Courage, and produced CSC's much lauded Chekhov Cycle (Ivanov, The Seagull, Uncle Vanya, The Three Sisters, and The Cherry Orchard) with Alan Cumming, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Ethan Hawke, Joley Richardson, Peter Sarsgaard, John Turturro and Dianne Weist. He initiated CSC’S Music Theatre Initiative and produced revivals of Stephen Sondheim’s Passion and Pacific Overtures. He also made CSC the home for playwright David Ives whose Venus in Fur transferred to Broadway and was nominated for a Tony Award for best play. 
Prior to this, he was an Artistic Associate and then Associate Producer for the Public Theatre where he directed the New York premiere of Tony Kushner’s adaptation of A Dybbuk, as well as acclaimed productions of Twelfth Night, Winter’s Tale, and Timon of Athens at the Delacorte Theater in Central Park. Other notable works include:  The premieres of Tony Kushner’s The Illusion (New York Theatre Workshop), Kathleen Tolan’s The Wax (Playwright’s Horizon), and Nilo Cruz’s Two Sisters and a Piano (The McCarter Theatre).  His work has also been seen at The Mark Taper Forum, San Diego Old Globe, Berkeley Repertory Theatre, ACT Theatre, The Magic Theatre, and Trinity Repertory Theatre where he was the Associate Artistic Director.  His work in opera and music theatre includes productions of Carmen, Pelleas and Melisandre, A Soldier’s Tale, The Anatole Cycle, and The Guilty Mother (all for Long Beach Opera), and a remounting of Gordon Davidson’s production of Benjamin Britten’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream  (Los Angeles Opera).  
He is the author of Staging Shakespeare (Methuen), How Greek Theatre Works, The Elements of Theatrical Expression, and The Secret Life of Theatre (all for Routledge). His most recent book, Staging the End of the World; Theatre in a Time of Climate Crisis, has just been released by Methuen.
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- **Interested Audience**: 
  - total_interested_count: 35

## Ticket Details

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## Event venue details

- **city**: Reykjavík
- **state**: RE
- **country**: Iceland
- **location**: Tjarnarbíó
- **lat**: 64.14597
- **long**: -21.94378
- **full address**: Tjarnarbíó, Tjarnargata 12, 101 Reykjavíkurborg, Ísland,Reykjavík, Iceland

## Event Organizer details

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- **organizer**: Reykjavík Ensemble International Theatre Company (https://allevents.in/org/reykjavík-ensemble-international-theatre-company/19542040)

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## FAQs

- **Q**: When is the event happening?
  - **A:** Sun, 22 Jun, 2025 at 05:00 pm
- **Q**: Where is the event happening?
  - **A:** Tjarnarbíó, Tjarnargata 12, 101 Reykjavíkurborg, Ísland,Reykjavík, Iceland
- **Q**: Who is organizing the event?
  - **A:** Reykjavík Ensemble International Theatre Company
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