Award for Best Performance and Best Actress
by Círculo de Críticos de Arte de Chile (Chile) in 2018

Audience Award for Best Stage Direction
by Premios Clap (Chile) in 2018

Maeterlinck Prize of the Critics (Belgium)
category « Best Solo Show » in 2020

Nominated for the Maeterlinck Prize of the Critics (Belgium)
category « Best Actress » in 2020

Grand Prize at the XXIX International Festival of
Bieslko Biala in 2022 (Poland)

Belgium/Chile - In the backstage of a theater, an aging actress named Chayka struggles to remember why she is there. A young woman arrives to remind her: tonight she must play the part of Arkadina in Chekhov's The Seagull. As her memory fades, not knowing quite who she is nor the part she is meant to be playing, Chayka is determined at least to give this last performance. In her struggle and descent, reality and fiction intersect.

This multi-award winning production, told in a dreamlike style, is a duo performance for one actress and one puppet, and is the first piece from the Belgo-Chilean company Belova ~ Iacobelli. (Run time 60 mins. Ages 13+)

In 2012, the Chilean actress and stage director Tita Iacobelli met the Belgo-Russian puppeteer Natacha Belova in Santiago, Chile, at the La Rebelión de los Muñecos Festival. In 2015, again in Santiago, they created an experimental theater laboratory for contemporary puppet theater. When the two-month experience was over, they decided to develop a play together. Chayka was the first production, created in June 2018 in Santiago de Chile, followed In September 2021, by LOCO at the Théâtre National Wallonie-Bruxelles in Belgium. In October 2022, the performance Sisypholia, by Natacha Belova co-directed with Dorian Chavez, was presented at the International Biennial of Living Arts Toulouse Occitanie in France. belova-iacobelli.com