The Seagull
From: Thursday, 8th November 2012
To: Saturday, 1 December 2012
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Synopsis
Written in 1896 this is a comic play of aspiration and failure. Nina aspires to be an actress, Kostya a writer. Madame Arkadina and Trigorin are already these things. Can the young people's dreams come true or will they sour when confronted with the adult world?
Our Review:
Jo Caird - 13 November 2012
It is summertime and the family and friends of Petrusha Sorin have gathered at his estate on the Isle of Man for a holiday. Sorin's nephew Konstantin has written a play and the company wait for nightfall and the arrival of Nina, the beautiful young woman who lives in the house across the lake, who will star in the show.
This Seagull begins, as they all do, with a play-within-a-play, but Anya Reiss's new modern-day adaptation of Chekhov's drama is far less about the theatre than others I have seen. It is about love, and even more than that, is it about ageing, whether growing up – as the play's young people find themselves forced to do – or growing old, the unfortunate plight of the play's elder generation.
This is the first time that Reiss has attempted an adaptation of one of the classic writers and it is an assured beginning. Her witty, understated rendering captures perfectly the dark comedy of the various love triangles (essentially every...
Cast
Matthew Kelly (Dorn)
Lily James (Nina)
Joseph Drake (Konstantin)
Michael Beckley
Emily Dobbs
Anthony Howell
Julia St John
Ben Moor
Malcolm Tierney
Sasha Waddell
Creative
Anton Chekhov (Author)
Jagged Fence (Producer)
Fenella Dawnay (Producer)
Southwark Playhouse (Producer)
Anya Reiss (Adaptation)
Russell Bolam (Director)
Jean Chan (Design)
George Dennis (Sound)
Tim Mascall (Lighting)
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