t4/ GAVIOTA/ Guillermo Cacace

In the Seagull, life seems like an abandoned and rotten stage of a theater play which takes place at the shore of a lake, while wind blows outdoors beneath the curtains and everything sounds like the crying of the defeated. Masha tries to assemble the pieces of this non reciprocated love, dreams that come true but get broken and suffering along years.

GAVIOTA/ Guillermo Cacace

 

This project was born as a consequence of Guillermo’s wish to research Chejov, as an author. There was a previous instance of this approach with his first immature and broken play: Platonov. In this version, we decided to work a synthesis with the characters we considered essential to tell the story, using Masha , the character who works at Arkadina’s house, as the eyes who accompany us discover those broken bodies. Considering Chejov as an author who can relate the ordinary and the sublime aspects of life, an almost impossible task, I tried to identify the length of the original play with the tragic aspect of each one of these characters, focusing on the key points on the scenes and letting time be present along the cadence and lines rhythm. The dramaturgy work had a first version which was tried during the rehearsal stage, and which also included changes such as the “didascalias” (author’s notes) which became part of the action on stage. Likewise, as the play was born during pandemic time, virtual rehearsals also had a significant role impacting the dramaturgy work and resulting in the version we are now sharing. What is the key point of this mythical play? What can the seagull tell us now? How do we deconstruct and build again? How do we approach the dramaturgy scope with actresses playing all the roles? How does this impact the storytelling and the poetics? We tried to keep the dramaturgy work at the staging phase, as indivisible spaces, as a constant work that could finish or not at premier time. This version is aimed at reaching the imposible sublime of the original but from a whisper, trying to grasp the core and all things that can’t be said by words but which are there, present on the surface.

 

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Artistic sheet

Dramaturgy: Juan Ignacio Fernández

Director: Guillermo Cacace

Starring: Clarisa Korovsky, Marcela Guerty, Paula Fernandez MBarak, Muriel Sago, Romina Padoan

Photography: Alejandra López

Graphic Design: Leandro Ibarra

Assistant director: Alejandro Guerscovich

Production: Romina Chepe

Distribution in Spain: Carlota Guivernau

 

 

*It was premiered in February 2023 at the Apacheta room, in Buenos Aires, Argentina

*Rafaela Theater Festival, Santa Fé, Argentina 2023

*International Theater Festival a mil, Santiago de Chile, Chile 2024