Performance

VenueBorough Theatre
TownAbergavenny
CountyMonmouthshire
From2nd May 2014
To2nd May 2014
When19:30
PricesFrom £12.00. To £12.00.
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The Seagull

T799482524
Written in 1896 this is a comic play of aspiration and failure. On a summer's day in a makeshift theatre by a lake, a bold new play is to be performed. It is the work of a young, would-be playwright, Konstantin, who is searching for a new, more authentic dramatic form. The play stars his beautiful muse and neighbour, Nina. The assembled family audience includes his actress mother, Arkadina, who has just arrived from Moscow with the famous novelist, Trigorin. What happens during, and in the days immediately after, this play's first performance will change not just the course of the summer, but the lives of everyone involved, for ever after. This masterly meditation on love and art is both comic and tragic, and marks the birth of the modern stage.
Author Anton Chekhov


Archive :: production:T799482524, play:S4870, venue:V839

Production details

Shifting Sands Theatre has developed a reputation for invigorating adaptations of classic texts. This production is an inventive re-telling of Chekhov's famous tragic-comedy yet remains faithful to the themes of the original, breathing new life into the story of Arkadina, the self-obsessed, famous actress, her tormented son, Konstantin, and their lovers.

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Company Shifting Sands Theatre
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