Author: Anton Chekhov
Year: 1895
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Classic, Play
Culture: Russia
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9780413771001
9780393338171
0413771008
0393338177 |
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A Methuen Student Edition of Chekhov's classic play in Michael Frayn's acclaimed translation.
When it opened in St Petersburg in 1896, The Seagull survived only five performances after a disastrous first night. Two years later it was revived by Nemirovich-Danchenko at the newly-founded Moscow Art Theatre with Stanslasky as Trigorin and was an immediate success. Checkhov's description of the play was characteristically self-mocking: "A comedy - 3F, 6M, four acts, rural scenery (a view over a lake); much talk of literature, little action, five bushels of love".
Michael Frayn's translation was commissioned by the Oxford Playhouse Company.
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