How nervous everyone is, so nervous!
As young, unsuccessful artists, they believe they can break all conventions and - finally successful - lose faith in their work. They want to lead a meaningful life in the centers of the world and bravely arrange themselves in the provinces. They want to renew society and become disappointed people in drama, education or administration. They look for the one, the great love, and end up passionlessly marrying someone else. Almost all the characters that Anton Chekhov brings together in "The Seagull" have arrived somewhere. But none of them where they actually wanted to be. They form a circle of unhappy lovers, grandiose or meek failures. It is a tragedy, it is a comedy.
Director Yana Ross is staging a production in Hamburg for the first time. Since her earliest childhood, this cosmopolitan artist has led a nomadic life that has proved fruitful for her artistic work: born in Moscow to a Ukrainian-Polish-Jewish family, she grew up in the Baltic States and the USA and has since lived and worked in various European countries. Most recently, she was a member of the management collective at the Schauspielhaus Zürich for five years. She returns again and again to the works of Anton Chekhov: no other author sequences the DNA of the human soul as precisely as he does. Together with the ensemble, she delves deeply into the original, questions Chekhov's dramas for personal points of reference, and continues them into the present.
Premiere January 23, 2026
Further performances: January 25, February 7, 19, and 24, April 15, 2026
