Meeuw - Het Nationale Theater

Theater en toneel

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.”