Flight and Crash The play The seagull/ang tagak was shown to the public at the Wilfrido Ma.

Guerrero theater in UP Diliman from September 19 to October 7, 2012 in commemoration of the 37 th season of Dulaang UP. It was originally crafted by Anton Chekhov in 1895 which broke theater and literary conventions of late 19th century Russia. Desires, aspirations, love, happiness of the characters are the revolving theme of the story. Theatrical acting, theme and content of the play can all be linked to the use and expression of the body. It was noticeable how the actors used their hands when expressing their thoughts and speaking. This may be an additional factor that makes their words more comprehensible. The hands are also used to direct the attention of the audience to where they are pointing to. Furthermore, the hand gestures may add to the realistic effect of the play i.e., shaking of clamped hands when nervous, crossing fingers from behind when not telling the truth. This led us to concluding that even if a theater art is dominantly vocal, the use of non-verbal language is crucial. Transcending cultural and geographical boundaries is the target of the play. The plot is Russian but the translation was done by a Filipino. He, Ronaldo Tinio, may be a professional and literate in both languages but the output story is never the same with the original. Some play of Russian sentences used by Anton Chekhov may not translatable to ours. I felt awkward that the script is in Filipino but the names of the characters were not changed from being Russian. It is then evident that the translation of one language from another crosses cultural boundaries; some elements are stripped and the output can be incomprehensible or worse, meaningless. Nina, one of the major characters in the story, associates herself with a seagull. Shes an aspiring actress and wanted to be famous like the mother of the one in love with her, Konstantin. Konstantin is also a budding writer and asked Nina to be the actress of her first play. Nina is not interested of him but of a very famous writer, Trigorin, who was invited to watch the play. Neglected, Konstantin just one day killed a seagull. In the end, Trigorin left Nina and ruined her life. The imprinting of the outside world to the body is prominent in this example. Nina on the early part of the story was free, full of dreams and aspirations like a seagull flying above the lake. At the later part, shes just like the shot seagull, no one even give attention to. Imprinting of the outside world then is not only physical but can also be mental and emotional.