The Seagull

Overview

Anton Chekhov’s first of four major plays dramatizes the romantic and artistic conflicts between its four main characters: Boris Trigorin, a well-known writer, the ingenue Nina, the fading actress Irina Arkadina, and her son the would-be playwright Konstantin Tréplev. Yury Butusov's Golden Mask Award-winning production abounds in an incredible freedom and openness, delving deep into the throes of artistic creation and the anguish of the artist who struggles to find a language of his own. This is not only a performance about the theatre, it is an anthology of the theatre. Chekhov’s characters are in the process of creating their lives or watching them fall apart, which, according to Butusov, may be a closely related activity.

Directed by Yury Butusov

Top cast

Polina Raykina

Irina Nikolaevna Arkadina

D

Denis Sukhanov

Boris Alekseevich Trigorin

T

Timofey Tribuntcev

Konstantin Gavrilovich Treplev

Vladimir Bolshov

Petr Nikolaevich Sorin

Agrippina Steklova

Nina Zarechnaya

A

Anton Kuznetcov

Ilya Afanasyevich Shamraev

Lika Nifontova

Polina Andreevna

Maryana Spivak

Masha

Artyom Osipov

Evgeniy Sergeevich Dorn

A

Anton Kuznecov

Semen Semenovich Medvedenko

Marina Drovosekova

Dancing girl

Sergey Bubnov

Yakov

Y

Yuriy Butusov

Treplev’s monologue in Act 4

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