Performance

VenueLeeds Playhouse (formerly West Yorkshire Playhouse)
Other spaces: Courtyard, Quarry, Bramall Rock Void
TownLeeds
CountyWest Yorkshire
From29th October 1998
To5th December 1998
What is currently on at Leeds Playhouse (formerly West Yorkshire Playhouse) (V977)

The Seagull

T01596831433
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:T01596831433, play:S4870, venue:V977

Production details

In the Courtyard. Courthyard

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Company

Performer Ian McKellern
Director Jude Kelly
Performer Clare Higgins
Performer Paul Bhattacharjee
Performer Susie Baxter
Performer Claudie Blakley
Performer Daniel Illsley
Performer Peter Laird
Performer Willie Ross
Performer Clare Swinburne
Performer Rhasan Stone
Performer Timothy Walker
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