La Mouette: Unplugged
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| Note: This photo is not from the La Mouette: Unplugged event. It is from the Festival Avignon production (2012). |
English Title
The Seagull: Unplugged
Director
Arthur Nauzyciel
Playwright
Arthur Nauzyciel
Playwright
Anton Tchekov
Year
7 January 2014, 7pm
Form
An “unplugged” performance of the production of Tchekov’s La Mouette in the rehearsal room of the National Dramatic Centre in Orléans. This production of La Mouette was first performed at the Avignon Festival in 2012, which then toured the regions.
Staged
The rehearsal room of the National Dramatic Center Orléans/Loiret/Center.
Synopsis
Irina, an ageing actress, along with her lover, Boris, visits her brother Konstantin at his country estate. Nina, a neighbour who is in a relationship with Konstantin, falls in love with Boris.
Production details
A performance in a rehearsal space without sets or costumes: Unplugged.
With Marie-Sophie Ferdane, Xavier Gallais, Vincent Garanger, Benoit Giros, Adèle Haenel, Mounir, Margoum, Laurent Poitrenaux, Dominique Reymond, Emmanuel Salinger, Catherine Vuoulez and the musician Matt Elliott.
Video
I have not been able to find any video from this event.
[Sorry. There is very little information available about this one-off event.]
Adèle’s role
Macha
Notes
This event was a simple performance of the play in the rehearsal space of the National Dramatic Centre Orléans/Loiret/Center, Paris. No sets, not costume, just the text and the actors. There is very little information about this event.
The director of La Mouette, Arthur Nauzyciel, was the head of the National Dramatic Centre, Orléan about 100km south-west of Paris, where this event was held. It was, as it says below, both a reunion and farewell for the cast, who had performed the play together since July 2012, 18 months earlier, at the Avignon Festival. It sounds like this was a way for them to come together and make theatre and celebrate what they had achieved as a team, as well as say some farewells, as this event was the last performance of the production.
The director of La Mouette, Arthur Nauzyciel, was the head of the National Dramatic Centre, Orléan about 100km south-west of Paris, where this event was held. It was, as it says below, both a reunion and farewell for the cast, who had performed the play together since July 2012, 18 months earlier, at the Avignon Festival. It sounds like this was a way for them to come together and make theatre and celebrate what they had achieved as a team, as well as say some farewells, as this event was the last performance of the production.
“After successfully traveling from the immensity of the Court of Honor in Avignon, on the plateaux from Orléans, Bordeaux, Clermont Ferrand, Tarbes, Valenciennes, Reims, Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines, Nice, Lorient, Créteil, the show is resumed this season at T2G, CDN de Gennevilliers, then at Châteauroux and Vire. You were the first to having discovered it after its creation at the Avignon Festival: on the eve from premiere to T2G, Arthur Nauzyciel and his team you invite to a unique evening in the CDN Workshop, our room rehearsal, where we will replay La Mouette in simplicity of the place.
‘Unplugged’, as we say of an acoustic concert, that is to say without electric instruments. This is the story of this exceptional adventure, artistic and human, whose actors and actresses of La Mouette are today carriers, who will serve as decor, costumes and lights, thus testifying to the evocative power of a text that they’ve been going through for a year and half. Between reality and fiction, work session and representation intimate where actors and characters merge, this recovery time before take off shared with the spectators will be, as in the play, both reunion and a farewell.”
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