Caroline Robert and Vincent Morisset - Studio AATOAA

La mouette

Landmark play illuminated by Catherine Vidal

2024-04-11 19:30 2024-04-13 23:00 60 Canada/Eastern 🎟 NAC: La mouette

https://nac-cna.ca/en/event/33683

In-person event

Art is an egg; it needs time and shelter to hatch. That’s why Mani Soleymanlou invited director Catherine Vidal to build her nest at French Theatre: two years of residency, research and creation, occasionally sharing her progress with the audience, to allow the wings of Anton Chekhov’s La  mouette (The Seagull) to spread wide.  The young playwright Treplev is in love with the actress Nina, who secretly loves the famous writer Trigorin, lover of the...

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Babs Asper Theatre,1 Elgin Street,Ottawa,Canada
April 11 - 13, 2024

April 2024

  1. Apr 11 2024
    Thursday

    7:30pm

  2. Apr 12 2024
    Friday

    7:30pm

  3. Apr 13 2024
    Saturday

    3:00pm

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Caroline Robert and Vincent Morisset - Studio AATOAA
“The egg hatches ”
  • In-person event
  • Français
  • ≈ 2 hours · No intermission
NAC Production

Art is an egg; it needs time and shelter to hatch. That’s why Mani Soleymanlou invited director Catherine Vidal to build her nest at French Theatre: two years of residency, research and creation, occasionally sharing her progress with the audience, to allow the wings of Anton Chekhov’s La  mouette (The Seagull) to spread wide. 

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. 

A talkback with subscribers, a podcast describing the creative process, a staged reading based on Chekhov’s correspondence and short stories—everything is set for an exploration, accompanied by a team of inspiring artists, of the complex inner workings of the writer and his work. 

Podcast profile of Catherine Vidal 

Want to learn more about Catherine Vidal and the La mouette project? Listen to this podcast (in French only) compiled by Julien Morissette from interview with the director, and visit this web page about the French Theatre Residency. 

Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat Sun
Apr 8
Apr 9
Apr 10
Apr 11
  • 7:30 pm Opening NIght
Apr 12
  • 7:30 pm
Apr 13
  • 3:00 pm
Apr 14
© Caroline Robert et Vincent Morisset - Studio AATOAA

Artists

  • Catherine Vidal ©Julie Artacho
    Directed by Catherine Vidal
  • 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
  • Costumes Wendy Kim Pires
  • Lighting Étienne Boucher
  • Sound Francis Rossignol  
  • Makeup and hair Justine Denoncourt-Bélanger
  • Director, Treplev’s play Sophie El Assaad
  • Producer NAC French Theatre
  • Co-producer Prospero and Cœur Battant