Chekhov’s Gun is a performance by 2nd and 3rd Year Students from the Bachelor of Performance and Theatre.
“One must never place a loaded rifle on the stage if it isn’t going to go off. It’s wrong to make promises you don’t mean to keep.” - Anton Chekhov
A pedestal stands proud in the centre of the stage. Above it sits a loaded gun. It will go off.
Anton Chekhov’s ‘The Seagull’ (1895) and ‘The Cherry Orchard’ (1903) are set to collide and intersect as they share one stage in Chekhov’s Gun, an adaptation by Tim Maddock (2025). Amidst the idyllic scenery of their estates in rural New South Wales, and grappling with a rapidly and irreversibly changing social order, two families will be united and divided over money, fame, sex and power as they cling desperately to a way of life no longer within their grasp.
Director: Tim Maddock
Assistant Director: Sophie Brunner