"And there is always something missing, a glass, a breeze, a sentence, and life hurts the more you enjoy it and the more you invent." 

Fernando Pessoa 

Setor de Áreas Isoladas Theater Company builds on its own female-driven contemporary Brazilian reading of Anton Chekhov's play The Seagull to create a new stage work that questions love and vocation in the current times. 

In the empty space of the stage, another Latin American troupe seeks to create theater. Turning to the dark waters of Chekhov's lake, they gaze into the uncertainty of times to come. "Soon after" is where they are. Through metatheatrical language, the audience follows the unraveling of the many mysteries from Chekhov's play and how the play's characters are swallowed by the dark waters of modernity as they strive for ideals that, as always, are far beyond the stage. 

The family is vacationing at their country house, and the death of a seagull heralds a dilemma familiar to everyone: what to do when vocation and love lead us down winding and confusing paths full of suffering and disappointment? In a time of virtual cancelations and lockdowns, when the "dislike" button doesn't exist and the real world is increasingly flirting with dystopian fictions, we believe that the riddles of Chekhov's "The Seagull" can be a compass to a better world. 

"Jupiter and the Seagull. It is impossible to live without theater!" - premiere and the second performance of Chekhov's trilogy "Setor de Áreas Isoladas." Earlier through a female contemporary Brazilian lens in the performance "To Moscow! Palimpsest" was the play "Three Sisters". 

Upcoming is "Bring the Horses!" based on the plays "The Cherry Orchard" and "Uncle Vanya". 

Premiere - August 30, 2024