Die Möwe
By Anton Tschechow
Staging: Christopher Rüping
Translation by Thomas Brasch
- 80% Classics
- 90% Generational Conflict
- 100% Acting
The family meets at the house by the lake. Mother and son, both in the arts, bring their lovers with them. Love sizzles like the summer heat, young Kostya’s new play flops, his mother Arkadina makes fun of it. Chekhov’s The Seagull tells of the desire for freedom, the longing for artistic recognition and an insatiable hunger for life. Young people compete against old, theatre reformers against the establishment.
In his first take on Chekhov, Christopher Rüping approaches the material with actors from his own generation, asking: How do we look at our own life stories when the turbulent years are behind us, but we have not yet grown old, rich or famous? What separates and unites people in midlife?
- Staging
- Christopher Rüping
- Stage design
- Jonathan Mertz
- Costume design
- Tutia Schaad
- Light
- Gerhard Patzelt
- Dramaturgy
- Moritz Frischkorn
- Audience Development
- Mathis Neuhaus
- Touring & International Relations
- Sonja Hildebrandt
- Artistic Mediation T&S
- Zora Maag
- Production Assistance
- Dominic Schibli
- Stage design assistance
- Karl Dietrich
- Costume design Assistance
- Renée Kraemer
- Production intern
- Anna Vankova
- Costume design intern
- Selma Jamal Aldin
- Dramaturgy assistant
- Lisa-Maria Liner
- Inspection
- Dayen Tuskan
- Soufflage
- Ursula Hildebrand / Katja Weppler / Gerlinde Uhlig-Vanet
- Surtitle installation
- Anne Hirth PANTHEA
- Surtitle translation
- Ambika Thompson PANTHEA
- Surtitel drivers
- Josephine Scheibe / Maya Scharf / Holly Werner / Aika Baumgartner
The translation by Thomas Brasch was partially adapted for Christopher Rüping's production.
Supported by Zürcher Kantonalbank & Else v. Sick Stiftung
In cooperation with LAS Art Foundation
Performance rights: Suhrkamp Verlag AG Berlin
- 3h, break included
- Premiere: 22. December 2023, Pfauen
- English Surtitles
- 🛈 Introduction 30 min before the play on 8.1., 10.1., 27.1., 9.2. and 23.2.
***Trigger warning: This production contains the subject of suicide and depictions of suicidal acts.
Sensory warning: Bright light images are used.***
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