Playing The Seagull

41 rue Jobin (entrée piéton), 12 rue François Simon (parking), Théâtre Massalia, La Friche Belle de Mai

Two generations of artists come together to stage The Seagull, Chekhov's famous play. Treplev is about to present the play he wrote for Nina, whom he loves madly, in front of his mother Arkadina, a renowned actress, and her lover Trigorine, a successful author. For one evening, the audience is invited to join the festivities and share the troupe's questions about what unites them and what divides them in this project. Indeed, playing The Seagull means entering a world in decline in which the characters and the artists swing between…