The Sea Gull: A Comedy in Four ActsGreat Russian playwright's tragic masterpiece portrays the inner anguish of a tormented artist who burns with unrequited love. Acclaimed as a prototype of 20th-century drama, it brilliantly reveals the universal tragedy of ruined hopes and dreams. |
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actors actress afraid Alexei Suvorin angry ANTON CHEKHOV ARKADINA bandage beautiful Boris Alexeyevich Bravo character comes course crying curtain DANIEL SELTZER darling dear lady desk doctor door DORN dreams Duse everything eyes famous father feel fish garden girl give goes Good-bye hand happy horses Irina Nikolayevna ironic JEAN-CLAUDE JEAN-CLAUDE VAN ITALLIE Joseph Chaikin khov kisses Konstantin Gavrilovich kopecks Kostya lake Laughing leave living look Mama MASHA Maupassant's MEDVEDENKO Melikhovo Moscow Art Theater mother never night NINA Nina's onstage PAULINA Pause Petersburg Petrusha Pyotr Nikolayevich remember rubles Russian scene Sea Gull SHAMRAYEV singing SORIN sound stand Stanislavsky stay story Suvorin table of ranks takes talk tell There's thing town TREPLYOV TRIGORIN Uncle Uncle Vanya understand vedenko walk What's woman words write Yakov young