Meeuw - Het Nationale Theater

No Dutch required. Want to follow the performance in another language? Find out more about the LiveText glasses below.

A young, ambitious writer presents her first play, her boyfriend plays the leading 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 once again opts for a gender swap of several important roles: “By having women play men's roles and vice versa, a 130-year-old play feels as if it was written yesterday. They remain Chekhov's words, but now with even more powerful female roles and more points of humor.”

Director Nina Spijkers shows with a new, brutal look how alive and dangerously funny Chekhov can be: “Chekhov is one of my favorite writers, because he is perhaps the best analyzer of the human soul who has ever written for the stage. He called his play a comedy. I'm really looking forward to capturing 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 follow along with the performance.

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

A limited number of glasses are available. Reserve your glasses via livetext@hnt.nl

Follow the performance with live subtitles or translation
Want to watch a Dutch performance? With the LiveText smart glasses, you can follow the dialogue in real time, even if you do not speak Dutch. 

The theater company has a limited number of glasses available, so please reserve yours by sending an email to livetext@hnt.nl.