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 meekly failing people. It is a tragedy, it is a comedy.
Director Yana Ross is staging her first production in Hamburg. Since her earliest childhood, the cosmopolitan has led a nomadic life that has been 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 Zurich for five years. Time and again, she revisits the texts of Anton Chekhov: No other author sequences the DNA of the human soul as precisely as he does. Together with the ensemble, she delves deep into the original, interrogates Chekhov's drama for personal points of reference and rewrites it for the present day.
Premiere January 24, 2026
