La mouette

Landmark play illuminated by Catherine Vidal

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  • In-person event

  • Français
  • Ages 14+

Performance options Start time Language Availability
Friday, April 12, 2024 10:00 am French sold out

“The egg hatches ”

Do you know Chekhov’s La mouette (The Seagull)? Together with ten performers, director Catherine Vidal sensitively unfurls the wings of this fascinating theatrical bird. A timeless classic revisited; a journey to the heart of art, creativity, and human frailty.

The young playwright Treplev is in love with the actress Nina, who secretly loves the famous writer Trigorin, lover of the great tragedienne Arkadina, Treplev’s mother. Drama of manners on a hellish wheel, intergenerational confrontation, theatrical game of mirrors? Attempting to grasp The Seagull means accepting that it will ultimately elude you. Catherine Vidal and her translator colleague Guillaume Corbeil have approached the play more like a fantastic “living laboratory” where the Russian author objectively presents the characters, their dramas, and their fragile humanity. So it will be up to us, the audience, to come up with a diagnosis. 

Artists

  • la-residence-tf-catherinevidal-credit-julie-artacho
    Directed by Catherine Vidal
  • guillaume-corbeil-photo-sabrina-hammoun
    Adaptation and dramaturgical collaboration Guillaume Corbeil
  • Written by Anton Chekhov
  • Directed by Catherine Vidal
  • Translation André Markowicz and Françoise Morvan
  • Adaptation and dramaturgical collaboration Guillaume Corbeil
  • With Simon Beaulé-Bulman, Nathalie Claude, Frédéric Desager, Renaud Lacelle-Bourdon, Macha Limonchik, Igor Ovadis, Olivia Palacci, Daniel Parent, Madeleine Sarr and Mattis Savard-Verhoeven 
  • Assistant director Alexandra Sutto
  • Sets Geneviève Lizotte
  • Sets assistance Carol-Anne Bourgon Sicard
  • Lighting Etienne Boucher
  • Sound Francis Rossignol  
  • Costumes Wendy Kim Pires
  • Costumes assistance Mathilde Donnard
  • Sewing Jez Yung
  • Makeup and hair Justine Denoncourt-Bélanger
  • Props Sophie St-Pierre
  • Director of Kostia’s play (Act I) Sophie El-Assaad
  • Video Zachary Noël-Ferland
  • Movement advisors Mélanie Demers and Sylvain Lafortune
  • Vocal coach Luc Chandonnet
  • Directing intern Marc-Antoine Brisson
  • Technical director Michel St-Amand
  • Production manager Catherine Comeau
  • Producer NAC French Theatre
  • Co-producer Prospero and Cœur Battant

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Learning and engagement at Canada’s National Arts Centre is made possible through the support of many generous individuals and organizations from across the country. Arts Alive is generously supported by the Azrieli Foundation, the Government of Nunavut, Canadian North, Calm Air, The River Philip Foundation, The Turnbull Family Community Building Foundation, and The Thomas Sill Foundation. Thank you also to Grant and Alice Burton, Canada Life, A Donor-Advised Fund at the Community Foundation of Ottawa, Friends of the NAC Orchestra, Donors to the NAC Foundation's Future Fund, The Janice and Earle O’Born Fund for Artistic Excellence, and the donors and sponsors of the NAC’s National Youth and Education Trust, the primary resource for youth and education funding at the National Arts Centre.