The Seagull: A Comedy in Four ActsYoung playwright Konstantin puts on his (awful) play for friends and family, starring Nina, whom he loves. After the failure of his play and when Nina becomes infatuated with Trigorin (the successful novelist who is Konstantin's mother's current lover) Konstantin melodramatically and unsuccessfully tries to shoot himself. Nina follows Trigorin to Moscow where she becomes his mistress and bears his child.Act IV takes place two years later. Nina, now abandoned by Trigorin and with her baby dead, returns to visit Konstantin determined to carry on with her career as an actress. The encounter confirms Konstantin's sense of his own failure as an artist and he shoots himself - successfully this time. |
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