role: Konstantin Garilovich Treplev
The Seagull By A.P. Chekhov / National Theater “Marin Sorescu” Craiova
- Music: Manos Milonakis
- Direction and stage adaptation: Yiannis Paraskevopoulos
- Translation: Mașa Dinescu, Moni Ghelerter şi R. Teculescu
- Opening night: 05 December 2015
- Scenery: Lia Dogaru
- Costumes: Lia Dogaru
- Assistant Director: Laurenţiu Tudor
Treplev wishes to be a playwright, but abhors current standards of theatre. In this monologue, he addresses his uncle, Sorin. At the start of it, he is pulling the petals off of a flower
TREPLEV:
“When the curtain goes up, and, in a room with three walls and artificial light, those great geniuses, those priests of holy art, show me how people eat, drink, love, walk about, and wear their jackets; when from those common life scenes and phrases they try to fish out a moral – some little moral that is easily grasped and suitable for domestic use; when, in a thousand variations, I am served the same thing over and over and over again – then I flee, as Maupassant fled from the Eiffel Tower, which made his brain reel with vulgarity.”
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