![]() ![]() The opening night of the first production was a famous failure. The character Trigorin is considered one of Chekhov's greatest male roles. Characters tend to speak in subtext rather than directly. In contrast to the melodrama of mainstream 19th-century theatre, lurid actions (such as Konstantin's suicide attempts) are not shown onstage. Like Chekhov's other full-length plays, The Seagull relies upon an ensemble cast of diverse, fully-developed characters. ![]() It dramatises the romantic and artistic conflicts between four characters: the famous middlebrow story writer Boris Trigorin, the ingenue Nina, the fading actress Irina Arkadina, and her son the symbolist playwright Konstantin Treplev. The Seagull is generally considered to be the first of his four major plays. Cháyka) is a play by Russian dramatist Anton Chekhov, written in 1895 and first produced in 1896. ![]()
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