The Seagull - Couverture souple

Joseph Blatchely's fine new production of The Seagull takes us to the Russian countryside in a fresh and exciting way. Working with Charlotte Pyke and John Kerr on a new translation, Chekhov's text seems funnier and more dramatic than ever. --The London Magazine

One of the dozen or so greatest plays ever written by anyone anywhere is being given just about as fine a production as you can reasonably ask for. I would happily send a first-timer to the Arcola to discover what a great playwright Chekhov is, and I can also recommend it to Chekhov veterans for the many fresh colours and lovely touches director Joseph Blatchley and his cast bring. All I have to say is that I have to go back to James Mason and Vanessa Redgrave in the 1968 film to find a version as moving and true as the one here and then to add that just about everything else in the production is on the same high level. --Theatreguide London

Blatchley has created a world of real people tormented by real and devastating decisions. Powerful, poignant and bordering on perfect, this was the most wonderful evening I have ever had in the theatre in a long, long time! --The Good Review

Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (1860 –1904) was a Russian author and dramatist renowned to be among the greatest writers of short stories of all time. He also practice medicine throughout his literary career. At first, he writes only for financial gain that soon grew artistically formal and innovating which contributes to the evolution of the modern short story. His dramatic masterpiece – The Seagull– created a history in the world of drama.