Meeuw - Het Nationale Theater

A young, ambitious writer presents her first play, her boyfriend plays the lead role. Together, they want to change the world with their performance. Her father and his girlfriend, also a famous actor and writer, prefer to keep everything as it was. Is there room for a new voice, or does the previous generation keep the door closed?

Director Nina Spijkers again opts for a gender swap of some important roles: “By letting women play male roles and vice versa, a 130-year-old piece feels like it was written yesterday. They remain Chekhov's words, but now with even more powerful women's roles and more entries for humor.”

Director Nina Spijkers shows with a new, cheeky look how alive and dangerously funny Chekhov can be: “Chekhov is one of my favorite writers, because he is perhaps the best diviner of the human soul who has ever written for the stage. He called his play a comedy. I'm really looking forward to catching that lightness on stage.”

Read or translate live during the performance
You can use smart LiveText glasses for these performances. The glasses show live subtitles of everything the actors say, so you can easily read along with the performance.

The glasses also offer the possibility to translate the text directly into more than 220 languages. This makes the performance accessible to both hearing-impaired visitors and visitors who do not speak Dutch.

There is a limited number of glasses available. 

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• Please note: Suicide occurs in the performance, a gunshot sounds three times and herbal cigarettes are used. Thinking about suicide? Call 113 24/7 for free and anonymously or chat at 113.nl.

The media about Seagull
''Nina Spijkers tilts Chekhov's Seagull genius' ' (Theaterkrant)
“With Meeuw, after Chekhov's classic, Nina Spijkers has made another adaptation that makes you think. The gender shifts that the director makes in Chekhov's play result in interesting shifts in accent. In addition to the generations, the genders are now also more clearly opposed to each other." De Volkskrant