Seagull

No Dutch required. Want to follow the performance in another language? Find out more about the LiveText glasses below.

A young, ambitious writer presents her first play, her boyfriend plays the lead. Together they want to change the world with their play. Her father and his girlfriend, themselves famous actors and writers, prefer to keep everything as it was. Is there room for a new voice, or is the earlier generation keeping the door closed?

Director Nina Spijkers once again opts for a gender swap of some key roles: "By having women play men's roles and vice versa, a 130-year-old play feels like it was written yesterday. It remains Chekhov's words, but now with even more powerful women's roles and more entries for humor."

Director Nina Spijkers shows with a new, bold look how alive and dangerously funny Chekhov can be: "Chekhov is one of my favorite writers because he is perhaps the best dissecter of the human soul who ever wrote for the play. He called his play a comedy. I feel very much like capturing that lightness on play."

Read or translate along live during the performanceof *
* At these performances, you can use smart LiveText glasses. The glasses display live subtitles of everything the actors say, so you can easily follow along with the performance.

The glasses also allow the text to be translated instantly into more than 220 languages. This makes the performance accessible to both hearing-impaired visitors and those who do not speak Dutch.

A limited number of glasses are available. Reserve your glasses at livetext@hnt.nl

Follow the performance with live subtitles or translation
Want to watch a Dutch performance? With the LiveText smart glasses, you can follow the dialogue in real time, even if you don’t speak Dutch. The glasses display subtitles directly in your field of vision and can translate the performance into more than 220 languages. Due to the nature of language, English is currently the fastest translation option.

The theater company has a limited number of glasses available, so please reserve yours by sending an email to livetext@hnt.nl.