13 Facts About The Seagull

1.

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

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2.

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.

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3.

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

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4.

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

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5.

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

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6.

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.

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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".

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8.

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

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9.

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.

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10.

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.

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11.

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

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12.

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

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13.

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

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