鈥淚f you ever need my life, come take it.鈥� So wrote Trigorin, lover of the fading actress Arkadina, in his most famous book. Nina, a young ing茅nue and the beloved muse of Arkadina鈥檚 playwright son, Konstantin, absorbs this statement completely. When the two actresses 鈥� one young, and one aging 鈥� and the two writers 鈥� one successful, and one struggling 鈥� meet at the family estate one fateful summer, their loyalty, love, and ambition are put to the ultimate test. The first of Anton Chekhov鈥檚 realistic plays, The Seagull is a remarkable drama about passion, compromise, and the unknowable, untouchable concept of art.
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