Books with title Seagull

Anton Chekhov's The Seagull is considered one of his most haunting and atmospheric character studies. A would-be playwright is at war with his egoistic mother while the town has become intoxicated by a sensational author. And as the alluring newcomer steals away Kosta's only love, their new romance could have devastating consequences.An L.A. Theatre Works full cast performance featuring:Calista Flockhart as Irina Nikolayevna ArkadinaT.R. Knight as Konstantin TreplevStephen Collins as Yevgeny DornGordon Clapp as Ilya ShamrayevLogan Fahey as Semyon MedvedenkoCindy Katz as Polina AndreyevnaDakin Matthews as Pyotr SorinBess Rous as MashaJosh Stamberg as Boris Alexeyevich TrigorinKira Sternbach as NinaDirected by Rosalind Ayres. Translated by Christopher Hampton. Recorded before a live audience."With standouts Calista Flockhart and T.R. Knight, this full cast performance transforms a dark drama marked by unfulfilled and mislaid passions into a hypnotic look at the lives of deeply flawed and painfully recognizable characters…listeners will be mesmerized." —AudioFile Magazine

Anton Chekhov's The Seagull is considered one of his most haunting and atmospheric character studies. A would-be playwright is at war with his egoistic mother while the town has become intoxicated by a sensational author. And as the alluring newcomer steals away Kosta's only love, their new romance could have devastating consequences. An L.A. Theatre Works full-cast performance featuring: Calista Flockhart as Irina Nikolayevna Arkadina T.R. Knight as Konstantin Treplev Stephen Collins as Yevgeny Dorn Gordon Clapp as Ilya Shamrayev Logan Fahey as Semyon Medvedenko Cindy Katz as Polina Andreyevna Dakin Matthews as Pyotr Sorin Bess Rous as Masha Josh Stamberg as Boris Alexeyevich Trigorin Kira Sternbach as Nina Directed by Rosalind Ayres. Translated by Christopher Hampton. Recorded by L.A. Theatre Works before a live audience.

The Seagull is a major four-act play by the Russian playwright written with full passion in 1895. It is a romantic drama with artistic conflicts among the four major characters. Though achieved a famous failure in the opening night of its first play, 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." – Rudnitsky (1981, 8)

‘The Seagull’is a play by Russian dramatist Anton Chekhov, written in 1895 and first produced in 1896.The Seagull is generally considered to be the first of his four major plays. 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 Tréplev.