The Seagull

A play made of everyday routine and insignificant conversations, where everything truly important happens offstage. A turning-point work for Chekhov himself—and for all world drama.

The play raises questions of art and creativity, talent and personality, love and fate, and weaves together complex relationships among the main characters: the young girl Nina Zaryechna, the writer Trigorin, the actress Arkadina, and her son Konstantin Treplev. The image of a gull is a symbol of an undying dream and at the same time a symbol of something senselessly destroyed and soullessly forgotten—a symbol of the heroes’ lives.