The Seagull
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Benson Will Direct Marvel in MTC's That Face in 2010...other Broadway credits include Seascape and An American Daughter (both for Lincoln Center Theater) as well as Taking Sides and The Seagull. She will appear this season at the Public Theater in Suzan-Lori Parks' new play, Book of Grace. In this article: That Face, New York City, Broadway, Blasted, Top Girls, King Lear, and Olivier Award |
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Guardian Unlimited | 2 days ago
Cock and The Fahrenheit Twins theatre reviews
...played Hamlet) peeling off his face. Katherine Parkinson has been an outstanding, grumpy Masha in Ian Rickson's radiant production of The Seagull, and a wonderfully funny dim-going-on-shrewd receptionist in Doc Martin on TV. Here she is both...
In this article: Katherine Parkinson, John Keats, Ben Whishaw, Hayley Carmichael, Dog, Guardian.co.uk, Bright Star, and Hamlet
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Pittsburgh Post-Gazette | 4 days ago
Review: 'Education' goes beyond classroom doors
...headmistress says otherwise. Mulligan, who looks a bit like a younger Katie Holmes in some scenes, and Sarsgaard appeared together in "The Seagull" on Broadway. She was Kitty Bennet in 2005's "Pride & Prejudice" and, in a sign of times to...
In this article: Lynn Barber, Carey Mulligan, Alfred Molina, Peter Sarsgaard, An Education, Oxford, and Lady Eleanor Holles School
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Reuters | November 15, 2009
Education star Carey Mulligan enjoying spotlight
...got to be irritating and desperate, and if you are not it is terribly boring." She was anything but boring in Chekhov's "The Seagull," in which she starred on Broadway. "It was just enormous for me," she says. "When I was growing up, that...
In this article: Carey Mulligan, An Education, Al Pacino, Keira Knightley, Shia LaBeouf, Pride & Prejudice, London, and Wall Street 2
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PopMatters | November 12, 2009
An Education: Carey Mulligan Comes of Age (Column)
...such range and complexity and depth as Mulligan seems to possess. Last year I happened to catch her on Broadway in Anton Chekov's The Seagull opposite Sarsgaard and Kristin Scott Thomas, where she gave a subtle, graceful performance as Nina.
In this article: Carey Mulligan, Lone Scherfig, An Education, Alfred Molina, Emma Thompson, Olivia Williams, and Peter Sarsgaard
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Playbill.com | November 12, 2009
Tony Winner Daly Will Offer Second Time Around at Feinstein's
...revival. She was also Tony-nominated for her work in Rabbit Hole, and her other Broadway credits include That Summer-That Fall and The Seagull. Second Time Around will be presented at 8:30 PM, with additional 10:30 PM shows on Fridays and...
In this article: Tyne Daly, Rabbit Hole, Emmy, Marilyn Bergman, Jule Styne, and Gypsy
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Detroit News | November 12, 2009
Carey Mulligan shines in British sleeper 'An Education'
...this straight shot to stardom. And she came prepared -- from the stage. Advertisement Last fall, when the Royal Court production of "The Seagull" starring Kristin Scott Thomas was exported to Broadway, Mulligan re-created her acclaimed...
In this article: Carey Mulligan, An Education, Lone Scherfig, Audrey Hepburn, Rowan Joffe, Kristin Scott Thomas, Detroit, and Lynn Barber
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Miami Herald - Breaking News | November 10, 2009
Unusual 17th century play critical of men sold
...few books were ever sold as the result of company owner Robert Fletcher's efforts. Review | New company takes on Russian classic 'The Seagull' -- in Spanish While playwrights often adapt classics in order to take creative liberties, Fabian...
In this article: Attorney General, Florida, Anton Chekhov, and Russia
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Television Without Pity | November 09, 2009
30 Rock - Don't Try Out Loud
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L.A. Times - Show Tracker | November 06, 2009
'30 Rock': Don't let the bed bugs bite!
...forgot, you know everything about acting because you played a bird in some stupid school play." His answer? "Yes Tracy, I was Trigorin in 'The Seagull' on the Wesleyan Arts Space main stage." Meaning Thing Jack Said to Liz: "That's true, Liz...
In this article: 30 Rock, Pete, Cisco, Katrina, and Susan Boyle
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Centre Daily Times | October 27, 2009
Carey Mulligan is known for movies set in different eras
...the Toronto International Film Festival. Mulligan has done a lot in a few short years, on stage in London and New York, notably in "The Seagull" with Kristin Scott Thomas; on television in the miniseries edition of Dickens' "Bleak House";...
In this article: Carey Mulligan, An Education, Wall Street, London, Emma Thompson, Wall Street, Bleak House, and Lynn Barber
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The Seagull (Russian: Чайка, Chayka) is the first of what are generally considered to be the four major plays by the Russian dramatist Anton Chekhov. The Seagull was written in 1895 and first produced in 1896. It dramatises the romantic and artistic conflicts between four characters: the ingenue Nina, the fading actress Irina Arkadina, her son the symbolist playwright Konstantin Treplyov, and the famous middlebrow story writer Trigorin.
As with the rest of Chekhov's full-length plays, The Seagull relies upon an ensemble cast of diverse, fully-developed characters. In contrast to the melodrama of the mainstream theatre of the 19th century, lurid actions (such as Konstantin's suicide attempts) are not shown onstage. Characters tend to speak in ways that skirt around issues rather than addressing them directly, a dramatic practice known as subtext.
The opening night of the first production was a famous failure. Vera Komissarzhevskaya, playing Nina, was so intimidated by the hostility of the audience that she lost her voice. Chekhov left the audience and spent the last two acts behind the scenes. When supporters wrote to him that the production later became a success, he assumed that they were merely trying to be kind. When Constantin Stanislavski, the seminal Russian theatre practitioner of the time, directed it in 1898 for his Moscow Art Theatre, the play was a triumph. Stanislavski's production of The Seagull became "one of the greatest events in the history of Russian theatre and one of the greatest new developments in the history of world drama."
- Name:
- The Seagull
- Genre:
- Comedy
- Written By:
- Anton Chekhov
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