Five women take their seats around a table together with the audience. Director Guillermo Cacace breathes new life into Chekov’s classic The Seagull by bringing painful truths about our collective striving for happiness to the table.

There is a table in the middle of the room, on it are wine bottles and crisps. Five women take their seats at the table together with the audience. Here, unrequited love, broken dreams and a strange mixture of longing and disappointment converge. His interpretation of Chekov’s The Seagull is Guillermo Cacace’s first performance at the Vienna Festival (Wiener Festwochen) | Free Republic of Vienna. Like Chekov, Cacace does not focus on dramatic plot twists, preferring intricate psychological character painting and multilayered dialogues. The Argentinian director breathes new life into the popular classic The Seagull by bringing painful truths about our collective striving for happiness to the table. The emotions circulate among the actors and the audience at close range.