Actress and performance artist Sharon Tal invites the audience to join her at the table for an interactive experience. She reads short excerpts from Chekhov’s “The Seagull” and asks, “What do you have to say about that?” The idea comes from a brief moment at the beginning of the play’s third act: Masha is sitting with Trigorin, having a drink, and suggests to him—as a writer—that when he lacks inspiration, he shouldn’t invent things but rather listen to people and write down what they say. Tal takes this suggestion literally. One person after another sits down with her. The response can be anything: a story, a memory, an association, a contradiction. You don’t have to know Chekhov to participate. Tal listens and drinks a glass of wine for each encounter. Over the course of the evening, a different “The Seagull” emerges from the voices, stories, and associations of the audience. Somewhere between theater and performance, the classic text becomes an open space for encounter, and the act of listening itself becomes a performance. This performance will be held in English at the Alte Billetkasse (old ticket office) at Theater Basel.
Tickets are CHF 10.

Website
theater-basel.ch/en/node/128219

Where
Theater Basel
Theaterstrasse 7
4051 Basel

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