Once In A Hundred Years

Anton Chekhov’s The Seagull opens with a play within a play, its creator Treplev insisting “We need new forms!” In Once In A Hundred Years, a company of actors tries to recreate Treplev's play. But can anyone make art that is truly “new”? A metatheatrical event that tries to break open both Chekhov’s play and the theatrical form, over the span of hundreds of years.

Anton Chekhov’s The Seagull opens with a play within a play, its creator Treplev insisting “We need new forms!” In Once In A Hundred Years, a company of actors tries to recreate Treplev's play. But can anyone make art that is truly “new”? A metatheatrical event that tries to break open both Chekhov’s play and the theatrical form, over the span of hundreds of years.

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Once In A Hundred Years

Many animals
Sorin* - 60s, estate owner
Arkadina - 40s (claims to be 32), sister of estate owner, famous actress
Treplev - 20s, Arkadina’s son, aspiring writer
Nina - 20s, neighbor, aspiring actor
Masha - 20s, daughter of the groundskeeper
Medved - 20s, neighbor, schoolteacher
Dorn - 50s, town doctor
Trigorin - 30s, famous writer, dating Arkadina
Yakov - 20s, hired help