If you want nothing, hope for nothing, and fear nothing, you cannot be an artist.” We have no politics, we don't believe in revolution, there is no God, we're not afraid of ghosts, and I personally am not even afraid of death or blindness. We have neither immediate nor remote goals, and there is an emptiness in our souls.
We wouldn't lift a hoof if you lit into us with a whip. “We describe life as it is and stop dead right there. The play reflects Chekhov’s assertion about himself and his fellow writers that: Chekhov’s bittersweet comedy The Seagull is about love enduring misfortune and unhappiness, about escaping provincial life, and about the production of art itself. And she loves Trigorin, the writer who loves only himself. His uncle, Pyotr Sorin, upon whose country state Konstantin lives, regrets all that he has not done as his health declines Masha, the alcoholic brooding daughter of the frugal estate manager, loves Konstantin but marries Medvedenko, a poor school teacher Polina, Masha's adulterous mother, is set on running away with Dorn, the local womanizing doctor Dorn has never written a word himself but is full of advice for Konstantin.Teacher Semyon loves Masha, but Masha loves Konstantin, who in turn loves Nina. Thwarted by his spotlight-craving actress mother, frustrated by his competition with the famous writer Trigorin, Konstantin's anguish is reflected by the pain of the other characters.
Set in a Russian country estate, this comedy portrays the struggles of Konstantin Gavrilovich Treplev to achieve his artistic ambitions and win the admiration of his muse Nina. World-renowned Russian director Aleksey Burago leads a critically-acclaimed ensemble in a bold and dynamic interpretation of Anton Chekhov's timeless masterpiece The Seagull, a tragicomedy that explores the tenderness, absurdities and misunderstandings between mothers, sons, lovers, friends and servants. THE RUSSIAN ARTS THEATER & STUDIO PRESENTS THE SEAGULL BY ANTON CHEKHOV DIRECTED BY ALEKSEY BURAGO
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