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The seagull : a play in four acts

The Seagull is the first of Anton Checkov's four full-length plays. It explores the romantic and artistic tension in the relationships between a young woman, a fading older lady, her playwright son and a popular story writer. The play references Shakespeare's Hamlet both in text and content. It has a cast of eclectic characters whose principle dramas play themselves out off stage and in unvoiced subtext. As this opposed the melodramatic theatre of the day ...

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  • "The Seagull is the first of Anton Checkov's four full-length plays. It explores the romantic and artistic tension in the relationships between a young woman, a fading older lady, her playwright son and a popular story writer. The play references Shakespeare's Hamlet both in text and content. It has a cast of eclectic characters whose principle dramas play themselves out off stage and in unvoiced subtext. As this opposed the melodramatic theatre of the day ..."@en
  • "A drama set in the Russian countryside that focuses on the characters' dissatisfaction with life."@en
  • "An exploration of the relationships between a young woman, a fading older lady, her playwright son and a popular author. Trepleff, a youthful aspiring writer dreams of bringing new forms to the theatre while Irina Arkadina, Trepleff's self-centered mother, an accomplished actress, derides her son's ambitions."@en

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  • "Translations"
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