Seagull by Anton Chekhov
The Seagull, a spectacular failure on its first appearance, was the play which, on its second, established Anton Chekhov as an important and revolutionary dramatist. Here, amid 'the weariness of life in the country', the famous actress Arkadina presides over a household riven with desperate love, with dreams of success and dread of failure. It is her son, Konstantin, who one day shoots a seagull; it is the novelist, Trigorin, who will one day write the story of the seagull so casually killled; but it is Nina, 'the seagull' herself, whose life to come will rewrite the story.Tom Stoppard made this English version for the Peter Hall Company at the Old Vic (Spring 1997), and added an introduction which indicates some of the problems translators have faced since the first English Seagull in 1909.
Stoppard, Tom: - Sir Tom Stoppard is a British playwright, who has written prolifically for television, radio, film, and stage. He found prominence with the plays Arcadia and The Coast of Utopia: Part 1€Voyage/Part 2€Shipwreck/Part 3€Salvage (Vivian Beaumont Theatre), Rock 'n Roll (Bernard B. Jacobs Theatre), The Invention of Love (Lyceum Theatre), Dirty Linen & New-Found-Land (John Golden Theatre), The Real Thing (Plymouth Theatre), Travesties (Ethel Barrymore Theatre), Jumpers (Billy Rose Theatre), and Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead (Eugene O'Neill Theatre).
Film screenplays include Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, Brazil, The Russia House, and Shakespeare in Love.
Winner of one Academy Award and four Tony Awards, Stoppard has also been awarded the PEN Pinter Prize for determination to tell things as they are, the PEN/Allen Foundation Literary Service Award, the Laurel Award for Screenwriting Achievement, and The Critics' Circle Award for Distinguished Service to the Arts.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780571192700 |
| ISBN 10 | 057119270X |
| Title | Seagull |
| Author | Anton Chekhov |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Faber & Faber |
| Year published | 1997-04-30 |
| Number of pages | 96 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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