Our performance. Letters on theatre (IV)

The Seagull, directed by Jokūbas Brazys, consists of the well-made characters which we haven’t seen for a long time. The young actors and the director managed to make Anton Chekhov’s characters fresh and allowed us to see them differently. It is a dark and tragic version of the Seagull, showing the real misfortune of all the characters. All the women are the seagulls destroyed by men, or really, in contemporary terms, everybody is destroyed by toxic relationships and vicious dependencies from each other. The passion of the characters is painful, brutal, real and open as it is absolutely unromanticized but well-grounded. The best character was Polina, the victim of male violence, accurately created by the actor Augustė Šimulynaitė.