"How anxious and full of love they all are! The issue of the Chekhovian characters in The Seagull, subtly enhanced in the show directed by Yury Kordosnky, is that none of them is in love with the right person, and that all their love is unrequited. [...] The Chekhovian characters, audience of the first and only performance of Treplyov's play, are sparse among us.[...]
The art and wisdom of Yury Kordonsky - Who actually created this new way of thinking and performing as manifested here and now? Undoubtedly, the director Yury Kordonsky. No, Yura has nothing of Treplyov's rebelliousness. No, the director will not drain the emotion from his mise-en-scene. But he will not overuse it, nor will he overbid or beseech it. Emotion will come, naturally generated by the depth of the performance, by its humanity and the well-controlled shenanigans of the heroes.
Yura is not as cruel to the Chekhovian characters as Andrei Şerban was in his staging in Cluj or in Budapest. But he is not lenient either. Instead, the director will assume some acts of courage, indicative of the staging's originality and of its high level of novelty. The most radical choices are those relating to the way the key-characters are designed, namely the Arkadina-Zarechnaya-Treplyov-Trigorin quartet, and to the way in which the actors were cast for their respective roles. The great, pleasant surprises are indisputably the brilliant performances by Olga Török and Horia Săvescu. Actually, all the actors are very good. They are in character, they are the characters. They know what to do. And this is due to the obvious fact that Yuri Kordonski did not come to Timişoara with a show written in a notebook beforehand, with all the moves already arranged. Undeniably, even before the first rehearsal, the stage director knew very well what he wanted. He emphasized his wishes. [...] . A leading professional, Yuri Kordonsky met one of the best theatre managers in the country, Lucian Vărşăndan, as well as one of the least fastidious and most enthusiastic acting companies."
