13 Facts About The Seagull

The Seagull is generally considered to be the first of his four major plays.

Stanislavski's direction caused The Seagull to be perceived as a tragedy through overzealousness with the concept of subtext, whereas Chekhov intended it to be a comedy.

English title for the play The Seagull is a potentially misleading translation of the title from its original Russian.

The Seagull loves the lake, like a gull, and she's happy and free, like a gull.

The Seagull spends the majority of Act III with his scalp heavily bandaged.

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The Seagull impressed the playwright and friend of Chekhov Vladimir Nemirovich-Danchenko who said Chekhov should have won the Griboyedov prize that year for The Seagull instead of himself.

The Seagull praised the production but was less keen on Stanislavski's own performance; he objected to the "soft, weak-willed tone" in his interpretation of Trigorin and entreated Nemirovich to "put some spunk into him or something".

The Seagull proposed that the play be published with Stanislavski's score of the production's mise en scene.

In early 2007, the Royal Court Theatre staged a production of The Seagull starring Kristin Scott Thomas as Arkadina, Mackenzie Crook as Treplyov and Carey Mulligan as Nina.

In 2020, Anya Reiss's adaptation of The Seagull began previews on 11 March in the Playhouse Theatre, starring Emilia Clarke as Nina and Indira Varma as Irina.

The Seagull was first translated into English for a performance at the Royalty Theatre, Glasgow, in November 1909.

Some early translations of The Seagull have come under criticism from modern Russian scholars.

The Seagull did this to explore the ideas of liminal space and time.