| Concept and direction: | Kate Mendeloff |
| Costumes and Set Design: | Celibes Donnelly, Kasia Mrozewska-Fenz |
| Consultant: | Leonora Ivanitskaya |
| Cast: | Martin Walsh, Tom Weisskopf, Misha Dion, Bess Due, Alexis Coir, Marilia Kyprianides, Leta Nikulshina, Diana Smith, Julia Taylor, Ricky Herbert, John Hill. Matt Hollerbach, Emmi Heifitz, Ben Balmer, Max Berry, Latoya Battle, Annie Bilton, Jasmin Walker, Веска Gluckstein, David Gorshein, Bess Gennet, Jacqui Colston, Danny Munny, Rob Papineau, Frederick Peters, Scott Screws, Rob Sulewski, Chris Hazelett, Priyanka Shah, Rebecca Schwarstein, Layla Ambrey |
At the heart of the show lie the relations between the American playwright Tennessee Williams and the characters of A. P. Chekhov’s play 'The Seagull'. At the end of his life Tennessee Williams created an independent version of the Chekhovian story.
So it happened! Why do events occur, how do they occur? Is it possible to change the course of events? And why? We look at life fr om the writer’s perspective, we see creativity, love and death.
Kate Mendeloff was born in Saint Louis, Missouri, in 1954. She graduated fr om the director’s department of Yale’s Theatre School. She was assistant to Andrei Shcherban and Lee Brewer in the Yale Repertory Theatre. She worked as director and literary adviser at the Center Stage Baltimore, Maryland, at the Arena Stage in Washington, as well as at experimental theatres in New York, San Francisco and London.
At present Kate Mendeloff works at the College of Michigan University, wh ere she stages European and American drama and modem plays, touching on problems of gender relations. In 2000 she became the initiator of festival ARB ARTS in Ann Arbor, Michigan. Since then she is the art director of the theatre Arb Arts, which was recognized by critics for productions with a particular use of the environment. In these performances the creativity of the actors is tied up with the rhythms of nature. The performances are played “in nature”, wh ere spectators can literally “follow” the action that unfolds in a natural environmental space.
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