SYNOPSIS:

From Portland Experimental Theatre Ensemble (PETE), a seagull is a love letter, an elegy, the building of a play, the striking of a set, the putting on and taking off of roles and hats and moments.

It seems to be asking us to reckon with our role as artists in the world. It is begging you to continue to put on your shoes and walk out the door and come to the theatre to be with us in the darkened room with lights.

It hopes you will like it, and will probably offer you tea, or a moment of temporary madness or reprieve.

There will be dead birds and beating hearts.

This project builds on 10 years of PETE working on new translations of Chekhov plays. Drawing on Štĕpán Šimek’s translation of Chekhov’s The Seagull and the writing of company member Chris Gonzalez, PETE will render a new play that asks: what are we all really doing here?

Directed by Rebecca Lingafelter

Featuring Jacob Coleman, Cristi Miles, Maureen Porter, Damaris Webb, Roo Welsh, Amber Whitehall, Ken Yoshikawa