WANDERING BARK THEATRE COMPANY

PRESENTS

THE SEAGULL

By Anton Chekhov

A new translation by Graham Schmidt

Directed by Kate Eminger

Anton Chekov’s The Seagull, a timeless play following the dreamy lives of a family of artists, delivers an important message to modern audiences. Today, the pursuit of love and success come with the heavy cost of sacrifice, in some inevitable capacity. Regret, manifested with a blithe sense of humor, has become so consistent in human nature it practically runs though our veins, and as a result, transforms our work.

This production attempts to break open and examine our inescapable battle to compare ourselves and our work. We will look inward, and, more importantly, backward, at the realities of the young writer, Konstantin, and view his successes and failures though the thin veil of regretful memory.  This pastoral tragicomedy about three generations of tangled, self-doubting artists, will take root as a play within a memory within a play, set in the boozy 1920's.

OUR GOAL

Our minimum goal is to raise $4,500 which will pay for rehearsal space and rental of The Secret Theatre. Additional funds beyond our minimum goal will allow us to put more funds into our design budgets and offer stipends to all the   artists committing their time and talent to this project.

OUR HISTORY

Last season Wandering Bark Theatre Company mounted our inaugural production of OTHELLO, which ran at The Secret Theatre in October 2011. Set in the present day on a military base in America, the production layered post-traumatic stress disorder and other issues our veterans are dealing with today on top of the classic tragic play.

"Othello at Long Island City's Secret Theater has given me new inspiration"  OffBroadwayworld.com

"Wandering Bark Theatre Company created a production filled with moving performances and compelling moments." OffBroadwayworld.com

In our second season, Kate Eminger will direct the New York premiere of Graham Schmidt's new translation of The Seagull. Kate is a director currently residing in Brooklyn, NY. She co-founded and has proudly served as the Resident Director and Artistic Associate for Palindrome Theatre, since 2009. Recent directing projects include This Property is Condemned, An Evening of Tennessee Williams Short Plays presented by The Pedestrians at The Lot in Brooklyn, Ibsen's Hedda Gabler (World Premiere), a new adaptation that premiered at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, Melancholy Play (Austin Chronicle’s Top Ten in 2010), Endgame, Back Story, The Glass Menagerie, The Lottery, and The Suitor –or- The madness Inside Me Growing. She recently received a nomination for Director of the Year by the Austin Examiner for her work on Hedda Gabler. She holds a BA in performance and directing from St. Edward's University and is currently the webmaster and social media designer for The Acting Company in New York City.

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www.wanderingbarktheatrecompany.org