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A scene from Michel van der Aa's opera Upload. Photo: Marco Borggreve.
A scene from Michel van der Aa's opera Upload. Photo: Marco Borggreve.
Seagull, a performance by Elevator Repair Service, directed by John Collins, NYU Skirball Center, New York, NY, July 12–21, 2022.
Over the past few years, Anton Chekhov’s plays have been adapted to reflect present concerns in numerous productions. Dmitry Krymov’s direction of The Cherry Orchard for the Wilma Theater in Philadelphia in 2022 used a giant train board to supply some of the text as the characters fell away, EgoPo’s production of Reza de Wet’s Three Sisters Two in 2019 moved the action to the 1920s and used expansive gender re-casting, and even Aaron Posner’s Stupid Fucking Bird at the Pearl in New York in 2016 updated The Seagull by making it a...