UTNT (UT New Theatre): Once in a Hundred Years

February 28-March 9, 2025
LAB Theatre

By Hal Cosentino
Adapted from The Seagull by Anton Chekhov
Directed by Ellenor Riley-Condit

Juno Adair – Assistant Scenic Designer / Rosy Esquenazi Alkabes – Assistant Director / Benjamin Barclay – Assistant Lighting and Sound Designer / Georgia Beckmann – Dramaturg / Gabriel Brown – Music Producer and Composer / Aaron Flynn – Costume Designer / Gabriela Hernandez – Assistant Production Manager / Layla Isaac– Assistant Costume Designer / Ana Lara – Scenic Designer / Jacqueline Mai – Assistant Stage Manager / KP Pierce – Lighting and Sound Designer / Ellenor Riley-Condit – Director / Jose Salcido – Production Manager / Aomi Seto – Assistant Stage Manager / Laura Soares – Stage Manager 

CAST

Treplev/Seagull…Adam Flores Jr.

Sorin/Human Being…Zoey Gonzales

Paulina/Beetle…Emerson Hartman

Nina/Starfish…Eian Johnson

Medved/Spider…Isaiah Jones

Dorn/Lion…Roman Losa

Masha/Goose…Mackenzie Mann

Arkadina/Crane…Oyin Ojomo

Trigorin/Frog…Diego Rodriguez

Yakov/Fish… Esmeralda Trevino

Photos by Thomas Allison.

Eian Johnson as Nina stands in the arms of her lover Treplev, played by Adam Flores Jr., as they stare off-stage.
Diego Rodriguez as Trigorin sits on the edge of the stage staring off into an imaginary pond/lake. Majority of the cast stands behind him having a chat.
In one of the new theatrical forms explored, Eian Johnson as Nina stands center stage listing animals in a spotlight. The rest of the cast has decayed to dust on the floor.
Dared by Nina to perform Treplev's play, Masha, portrayed by Mackenzie Mann, takes on her goose form to take the stage.
Yakov, played by Esmeralda Trevino, sits next to an injured Treplev, Adam Flores Jr. They discuss what they could've explored and built other than a theatre. What else is out there...
Always ill Uncle Sorin, played by Zoey Gonzales, coughs up a lung in a chair flanked by Medved, played by Isaiah Jones, Arkadina, portrayed by Oyin Ojomo, and Treplev, played by Adam Flores Jr.
Roman Losa as Dorn gives Treplev's curtain speech for the final rendition and attempt at a new form of theatre. Treplev, played by Adam Flores Jr., doesn't want to give this curtain speech. Dorn lost a game of nose goes.
The entire cast sits on arranged on the stage performing a musical number. From left to right, Trigorin, Deigo Rodriguez, Treplev, Adam Flores Jr., Dorn, Roman Losa, Nina, Eian Johnson, Paulina, Emerson Hartman, Yakov, Esmeralda Trevino, Sorin, Zoey Gonzales, Arkadina, Oyin Ojomo, Masha, Mackenzie Mann, and Medved, Isaiah Jones.
The play is falling away. Who stands before us in one line is no longer the characters of The Seagull or Once in a Hundred Years. It is instead the actors themselves, but the play - the play still goes on...
Yakov, played by Esmeralda Trevino, stands centerstage while the rest of the cast turns into moss growing up the back wall behind them. They reach out to the audience.

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