The "Seagull" of the Krétakör Theatre

"When we started to work with the "Seagull" by Chekhov, after the first waves of enthusiasm and happiness - everybody knew on the forehand, still it was an adventure to experience what a perfect play it is - a bunch of questions and doubts have been raised. The analysing rehearsals lasted for a month, while, in lack of place, we discussed the drama in the flat of the director. We had extreme arguments about the meaning of certain sentences or scenes; about the features and intentions of the characters; about what Anton Pavlovitch might have thought here and there; and what messages does the play transmit for us. It was a question of main importance to reveal what are those elements of the play that now, a hundred years later, have the same meaning for us than it had for the contemporaries of Chekhov.
The performance was prepared in three stages: the main feature of the Krétakör Theatre working method, a ten days retirement succeeded the analysing rehearsals.
This time we withdrew to a wooden house in the forests of the Transylvanian Harghita Mountains." (Continua aqui)


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Sobre a tradução simultânea: 1) faz confusão nos primeiros 5 minutos, se tanto. Depois, é como se não estivesse lá, o que diz muito sobre a representação destes senhores; 2) ter lido Budapeste introduz prazeres paralelos.