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Type The Seagull

Name: The Seagull
Author: Anton Chekhov

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Comedy Drama

A fading actress, Madame Irina Nikolayevna Arkadin, visits her brother’s country estate, where her son, Konstantin Gavrilovitch Treplev, stages an avant-garde play in an attempt to realize his artistic ambitions. The play stars the woman he’s in love with, Nina Mihailovna Zaretchny, an aspiring actress with restrictive parents. Meanwhile, Masha, the daughter of the estate manager, pines for Treplev, while a local schoolteacher, Medvedenko, pines for Masha. Trigorin, a novelist,...

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Dramatis Personae

Irina Nikolayevna Arkadin (Madame Treplev) (an actress) Konstantin Gavrilovitch Treplev (her son, a young man) Pyotr Nikolayevitch Sorin (her brother) Nina Mihailovna Zaretchny (a young girl, the daug...

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Act 1

Part of the park on Sorin’s estate. Wide avenue leading away from the spectators into the depths of the park towards the lake is blocked up by a platform roughly put together for private theatricals, ...

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Act 2

A croquet lawn. The house with a big verandah in the background on the right, on the left is seen the lake with the blazing sun reflected in it. Madame Arkadin: Flower beds. Midday. Hot. Madame Arkadi...

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Act 3

The dining-room in Sorin’s house. Doors on right and on left. A sideboard. A medicine cupboard. A table in the middle of the room. A portmanteau and hatboxes; signs of preparation for departure. Trigo...

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Act 4

One of the drawing-rooms in Sorin’s house, which has been turned into a study for Konstantin Treplev. On the right and left, doors leading to inner apartments. In the middle, glass door leading on to ...

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