Details

125 years after its first production, Chekhov's The Seagull still resonates today. Konstantin, a young playwright overshadowed by his famous actress mother, attempts to create a new form of theatre. So, what happens when we take three very different versions of the play and explore them through the students' own perspective? Endurance. That's what show business is about. It's not for the faint-hearted. Chekhov understood that. And so do the fourteen Bristol Old Vic Theatre School acting students who are about to graduate, having spent the best part of their final year masked up, sanitised and constrained. Olivier Award-winning director Sally Cookson (A Monster Calls, Peter Pan) weaves together three seminal adaptations - Aaron Posner's Stupid, Fucking Bird, Anya Reiss' The Seagull and Christopher Hampton's The Seagull - to present possibly an entirely new way of experiencing theatre.

Cast/Performers

Issam Al Ghussain, Emma Hadley-Leonard, Jake Kenny-Byrne, Sumile Sibanda, Dewi Wykes, Katie Dorman, Charlie Hall, Lionelle Nsarhaza, Eliza Smith, Tessa Wong, Michael Drake, James Jip, Amelia Paltridge, Theo Spofforth

Creatives/Company

Presented by: Bristol Old Vic Theatre School
Director: Sally Cookson
Design: Cat Fuller
Costume: Maria Terry