The Seagull

The director and his group of actors are trying to get to the very core of the play, which has often been concealed under ornate costumes, sumptuous set designs, or uplifting intonations.

“To stage Chekhov is to diagnose the diseases of our time, the gouts of our soul, using intonations like scalpels. For an actor to venture into playing in Chekhov’s plays is somewhat similar to a doctor taking the Hippocratic Oath because every moment in a Chekhovian drama is a metastasis of fate. Unfortunately, often the passion, love, jealousy, and hatred present in Chekhov’s plays have been hushed up, drowned in the fog of minor intellectual elegies, tea-table talks, with life merely passing by.

But all this is nothing but academic and, in fact, truly political censorship. In truth, life does not pass by in Chekhov’s plays – it opens up for the characters and the audience with all the power of its love and existential horror” – Koršunovas said.

The Seagull was born in the laboratory space of the OKT studio. The Lower Depths and Krapp’s Last Tape were staged and Hamlet and Miranda took their first steps in this open, intimate, unadorned, authentic space. The director sees a very close relationship between The Seagull, which is still in the making, and Hamlet and The Lower Depths which are already running.

Direction and Stage Design: Oskaras Koršunovas

Cast: Nele Savicenko, Martynas Nedzinkas, Gelmine Glemzaite, Agnieska Ravdo, Kirilas Glusajevas, Rasa Samuolyte...  

Costume Design: Dovile Gudaciauskaite

Video Artist: Aurelija Maknyte 

Props and Costume: Aldona Majakovaite 

Subtitling: Aurimas Minsevicius

Photography: Dmitrijus Matvejevas 

Country: Lithuania