Enrique Diaz - The Seagull

Born in 1969, the director Enrique Diaz has staged numerous plays, both classical and contemporary. Since 1998, he conducts the Coletivo Improviso. Multidisciplinary and improvisation are the prism through which the Coletivo wishes to tackle «city» issues.

In 2007, Enrique Diaz staged The Seagull, adapted from Chekhov’s play, which he reinterpreted entirely. The staging of this play turns the usual codes and conventions of repertory theatre upside down. A cast of young Brazilian actors and one young Frenchman exiled in São Paulo question The Seagull and its characters to identify with them or distance themselves from them. The characters split into two, curious stage props appear - a cosmonaut’s helmet, a helicopter flying over the audience, a strange sculpture of chairs and clay - and the actors start commenting the text.

With Lorena da Silva, Emílio de Mello, Enrique Diaz, Felipe Rocha, Thierry Tremouroux, Isabel Teixeira, Bel Garcia

Part of Brasil Festival and Europalia.