Krétakör Theatre - Árpád Schilling
The Seagull
by Anton Chekhov
The Athens Festival places great importance on theatre productions that apply new approaches to the classics. This summer, Athens will be treated to two new productions of works by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (1860-1904).
The theatre company founded by Árpád Schilling a decade ago is called Krékatör, which means “chalk circle”. The Hungarian director places The Seagull – a work containing “many discussions on literature, little action, and five hundredweights of love” according to Anton Pavlovich – within this metaphorical circle (which references Bertolt Brecht’s myth, The Caucasian Chalk Circle), and forces his actors to not only feel the text, but to also understand it, seeking out the secret truths of the words (“Let us assume that Chekhov is cleverer than all of us,” he told them).
With directorial works for important European theatre companies to his name, the 33-year-old Árpád Schilling (whom we applauded at the Festival of the Union of European Theatres in 2001) presents a work of uncommon emotional immediacy, without sets and costumes, founded on the interplay of the actors, and with the ending boldly transformed: he selects a spiritual suicide for Treplyov that is most fitting for our times.
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Duration 3 hours with two intervals
Peiraios 260 (H)
- 09/06 until 11/06/2007 at 21:00
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