Anton Chekhov Seminar: The Seagull

Please join us this fall for a five part series of live readings and discussions of 5 Anton Chekhov plays to close out our Anton Chekhov Seminar. In this second Meetup we will live read and discuss the Seagull.

The Seagull (Russian: Ча́йка, romanized: Cháyka) is a play by Russian dramatist Anton Chekhov, written in 1895 and first produced in 1896. The Seagull is generally considered to be the first of his four major plays. It dramatizes the romantic and artistic conflicts between four characters: the famous middlebrow story writer Boris Trigorin, the ingenue Nina, the fading actress Irina Arkadina, and her son the symbolist playwright Konstantin Treplev.

Online Text Link:
https://www.gutenberg.org/files/1754/1754-h/1754-h.htm