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<p class="Body" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">The Theatre and Performance
</span><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:windowtext">Program presents their fall
</span><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">production of </span><span style="color:#1F497D"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="Body" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><i><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></i></b></p>
<p class="Body" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><i><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:windowtext">The Seagull</span></i></b><i><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">.</span></i><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="Body"><i><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="Body" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Written by
</span><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:windowtext">Anton Chekhov</span><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"> |
</span><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:windowtext">Translated by Tom Stoppard |
</span><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Directed by </span><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:windowtext">Matt White</span><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="Body" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">November 1</span></b><b><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:windowtext">3</span></b><b><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">
- 1</span></b><b><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:windowtext">6</span></b><b><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">, 7:30pm<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="Body" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Matinee = November 1</span></b><b><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:windowtext">4</span></b><b><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">,
12 pm<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<p class="Body"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:windowtext">Running time</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:windowtext">: 1 hour 45 minutes (no intermission)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="Body"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:windowtext">Venue</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:windowtext">: Theatre of the Arts, Modern Languages Building<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="Body"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:windowtext"> 200 University Avenue West, Waterloo<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span lang="EN-CA">Check out the
<a href="https://youtu.be/e9k1hSeE0rI">trailer</a> for the production.</span><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Growing up is already hard enough, but try having a mother who is a self-absorbed actress and is dating an effortlessly successful writer, who then charms your own girlfriend into falling in love with him. This is the unfortunate reality
of Konstantin, a young artist struggling to find his place in a world where everyone
<span style="color:#201F1E;background:white">is living big lives, filled with big emotions, and big dreams.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#201F1E;background:white"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#201F1E;background:white">In <b><i>The Seagull</i></b><i>,
</i>characters speak of love and art the way people today speak about climate change. Passionately. On the razor’s edge. And it is all very funny.
</span><span style="color:#201F1E;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">Chekhov insisted the play is a comedy and director,
<b>Matt White</b>, is focusing on pushing these little dramas, mining them for as much comic gold as the company can find.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white;vertical-align:baseline"><span style="color:#201F1E;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">The play has been given a Canadian contemporary re-contextualization filled with references to Uber, Atwood, and vaping.
While these details are updated with observations of idiosyncrasies we might not be proud of, such the obsessions that distract us from making actual connections with one another, they feel just as true and accurate today as it did over 100 years ago. Chekhov
explores the desperate measures people will go to for love, for acceptance, and for survival, while also demonstrating the unrealistic expectations people place on each other to give them meaning. In <b><i>The Seagull</i></b>, there are no pills to take to
make life worth living. You simply keep going...or you don’t. </span><span style="color:#201F1E"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white">Doors will open 30 minutes prior to each performance, with an engagement space in which audience members can explore.<span style="color:#1F497D"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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