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Synopsis

“If you ever need my life, come take it.” So wrote Trigorin, lover of the fading actress Arkadina, in his most famous book. Nina, a young ingénue and the beloved muse of Arkadina’s playwright son, Konstantin, absorbs this statement completely. When the two actresses — one young, and one aging — and the two writers — one successful, and one struggling — meet at the family estate one fateful summer, their loyalty, love, and ambition are put to the ultimate test. The first of Anton Chekhov’s realistic plays, The Seagull is a remarkable drama about passion, compromise, and the unknowable, untouchable concept of art.

Show Information

Category
Play
Age Guidance
Youth (Y)/General Audiences (G)
Number of Acts
4
First Produced
1896
Genres
Drama, Dark Comedy
Settings
Period, Multiple Settings
Time & Place
a country estate in russia, 1890s
Cast Size
medium
Orchestra Size
None
Dancing
None
Licensor
None/royalty-free
Ideal For
Mostly Male Cast, Includes Adult, Mature Adult, Young Adult, Elderly Characters, Medium Cast

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Plot

Characters

Name Part Size Gender Vocal Part

Irina Nikolayevna Arkadina

Lead

Female

Spoken

Konstantin Gavrilovich Treplev

Lead

Male

Spoken

Nina Mikhaelovna Zarechnaya

Lead

Female

Spoken

Boris Alexeyevich Trigorin

Lead

Male

Spoken

Pyotr Nikolayevich Sorin

Supporting

Male

Spoken

Yevgeny Sergeyevich Dorn

Supporting

Male

Spoken

Ilya Afanasyevich Shamrayev

Supporting

Male

Spoken

Paulina Andreyevna

Supporting

Female

Spoken

Masha

Supporting

Female

Spoken

Semyon Semyonovich Medvedenko

Supporting

Male

Spoken

Yakov

Featured

Male

Spoken

Ensemble

Ensemble

Either Gender

Silent

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