![]() ![]() "Comedy, four female roles, six male roles, four acts, landscape (view of a lake) much talk of literature, little action, five pounds of love" (from A. Passion, revenge, romantic impulses and adultery, dreams of glory and the desire for self-destruction - The Seagull, written in1895 has never been so modern. ![]() She is a psychological curiosity, my mother. TREPLEF: She is vexed at the idea of Nina Zarétchnaya and not herself having a success even in this poor little theatre. ![]() It dramatises the romantic and artistic conflicts between four characters: the famous middlebrow story writer Boris Trigorin, the ingenue Nina, the fading actress Irina Arkadina, and her son the symbolist playwright Konstantin Treplev. "How nervous everyone is! And how much love."Ī famous actress, a young actress, a fashionable novelist, a controversial playwright, a prosaic teacher, and one who is always in black, meet in a country house and philosophize about art, boredom, and the meaning of life.Īll, of course, are in love with those who do not reciprocate. THE SEAGULL A monologue from the play by Anton Chekhov NOTE: This monologue is reprinted from Two Plays of Tchekhof. The Seagull is generally considered to be the first of his four major plays. ![]()
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