The Seagull

The Seagull

Author: Anton Chekhov

Director: Greg Hersov

Manchester Royal Exchange

Synopsis

In The Seagull, a work that the author himself claimed contained ‘‘five tons of love,’’ is a play about a very human tendency to reject love that is freely given and seek it where it is withheld. Many of its characters are caught in a destructive, triangular relationship that evokes both pathos and humor. What the characters cannot successfully parry is the destructive force of time, the passage of which robs some, like Madame Arkadina, of beauty, and others, like her son Konstantine, of hope.

Joseph Millson Role

Medvedenko

Dates

13 March '03 - 10 May '03 : Royal Exchange Theatre, Manchester

Links 

Royal Exchange Theatre

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