Stage Russia - A. P. Chekhov: The Seagull

Director: Yury Butusov

Cast
Irina Nikolaevna Arkadina: Polina Raykina
Konstantin Gavrilovich Treplev: Timofey Tribuntcev
Petr Nikolaevich Sorin: Vladimir Bolshov
Nina Zarechnaya: Agrippina Steklova
Ilya Afanasyevich Shamraev: Anton Kuznetcov
Polina Andreevna: Lika Nifontova
Masha: Mariana Spivak
Boris Alekseevich Trigorin: Denis Sukhanov
Evgeniy Sergeevich Dorn: Artem Osipov
Semen Semenovich Medvedenko: Anton Kuznecov
Dancing girl: Marina Drovosekova
Yakov: Sergey Bubnov

Yury Butusov’s frenetic production abounds in an incredible freedom and openness, delving deep into the throes of artistic creation and the anguish of the artist who struggles to find a language of his own. This is not only a performance about the theatre, it is an anthology of the theatre that devours its children like monsters. With the shuffling of actors’ roles, you begin to sense something of a quadraphonic portrait of the creative personality, which demonstrates that greatness is precariously close to mediocrity while suggesting that the opposite is also true. Chekhov’s characters are in the process of creating their lives or watching them fall apart, which, according to Butusov, may be a closely related activity.

Running time: 230 minutes with two intermissions


Ticket information

Ticket price: 3600 HUF

For students, pensioners, teachers: 3200 HUF

Tickets are available at the Cassa of the Urania National Filmtheater (open every day 11:00-20:30, Credit Cards are accepted) and in the Ticket Sale System of Interticket and Jegymester (available in English too)