Annie Baker
An uptight documentary filmmaker and his wife find their lives loosened up a bit after befriending a free-spirited younger couple.
The film follows 11 year old Lacy, her mother Janet, and the three people who come into their lives over one summer in 1991.
Anton Chekhov's "The Seagull" is interpreted by a handful of top shelf stage actors from New York City as they converge in an upstate lakeside retreat. Surrounded by a menagerie of paper lanterns, circus tents, ten-foot tall puppets and floating furniture, the players merge with the reckless choices of their characters. In full view of their fellow artists as well as a wider participating audience, the performers’ most intimate impulses are splayed open and made public.
A story set in a mysterious circus and centered around two young magicians vying for supremacy under the close watch of their respective instructors.
