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By Hal Cosentino
Adapted from The Seagull by Anton Chekhov
Directed by Ellenor Riley-Condit
Hello! It’s 1895. A young writer on a Russian estate recruits his crush to perform his new play for his mother, her boyfriend and the estate workers. It goes badly, but he refuses to give up. It’s also 2025. A company of actors in Austin, Texas performs a new play for you. It’s a cacophony of animals living and dying before your very eyes. But can anything truly be “new”—art, our lives, our problems? If not, then what do we need to feel whole? Come spend a thousand years with us in just one night trying to find out.
Performances
February 28 at 7:30 p.m.
March 2 at 2:00 p.m.
March 8 at 2:00 p.m.
March 9 at 7:30 p.m.
About the Playwright
Hal Cosentino is a playwright, actor, and teacher. Plays: Oh, Buddy will be published in the upcoming Methuen Anthology of Trans Plays, Volume 2. Once In A Hundred Years and Marathon were developed at Powerhouse Theater (Poughkeepsie, NY). Awards: O’Neill New Play Conference Finalist 2023 and 2024. Hal has roots in Chicago, Atlanta, and Asheville, and did his undergraduate studies at Skidmore College and the Moscow Art Theatre School. He will receive his M.F.A. in Playwriting from The University of Texas at Austin in May 2025, and often collaborates with his art/life partner Ellenor Riley-Condit.
About the director
Ellenor Riley-Condit is a theatre maker working at the intersection of performance creation and liberatory praxis. Her favorite works with Texas Theatre and Dance include A Beautiful Day in November on the Banks of the Greatest of the Great Lakes (2024), as well as Oh, Buddy and Then We’ll Rest (The Cohen New Works Festival, 2023). She serves as faculty and curriculum coordinator at Powerhouse Theater at Vassar College, where she directed Trojan Women and Marathon. double-text.com (she/her)
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