The German State Theatre Timişoara at the Sibiu International Theatre Festival
The German State Theatre Timişoara will present Anton Pavlovich Chekhov's play The Seagull, directed by Yuri Kordonsky, at the Sibiu International Theatre Festival.
The dates are
Tuesday, the 11th of June, at 9 p.m.
and
Wednesday, the 12th of June, at 9 p.m
in the Balanţa Hall (Hala Balanţa).
The performances will be translated into Romanian and English.
The premiere of the play took place on the 9th of March, 2013.Starring: Ioana Iacob, Horia Săvescu, Franz Kattesch, Olga Török, Rareş Hontzu, Enikő Blénessy, Anne-Marie Waldeck, Radu Vulpe, Georg Peetz, Konstantin Keidel, Aljoscha Cobeţ, Isa Berger, Paul Cebzan und Dana Borteanu.
Stage and costumes were designed by Dragoş Buhagiar.
The 20th edition of the Sibiu International Theatre Festival will be held from the 7th to the 16th of June. This year it will feature 350 events from 70 different countries, involving 2500 artists and guests. Besides theatre performances it offers the possibility to attend film projections, book presentations, conferences, workshops, street art events and dramatic readings.
About the play:
"An idea for a short story. A young girl grows up on the shores of a lake, as you have. She loves the lake as the gulls do, and is as happy and free as they. But a man sees her who chances to come that way, and he destroys her out of idleness, as this gull here has been destroyed."
On a country estate a group of people gathers around aging actress Irina Nikolayevna Arkadina. Her brother, her lover, writer Trigorin, her son who is also trying his luck in writing, his beloved Nina who is playing in his play, and the estate agents and their daughter, a doctor and a teacher. Nina who wishes to become an actress is impressed by Trigorin's success and falls in love with him. By this, she causes to alter everybody's relationships with each other. Thereby she is rocking the relationships between everybody, leading to a chain of unhappy lovers, whose love and failing to satisfy their own standards determine their lives and talks.
