The play then sees a tangle of romantic longing play out.

It’s part of Chekhov’s witty exploration of drama within his play: watch that live by booking The Seagull tickets. Irina, her brother Pyotr and their guests gather to watch an experimental play by Irina’s son, Konstantin, starring the girl he loves, Nina - but Irina finds the work ridiculous and humiliates Konstantin. The story is set at a country estate and starts with the arrival of the renowned actress Irina Arkadina and her lover, writer Boris Trigorin. He began writing it in 1895, describing it in a letter as a comedy with views over a lake and “a great deal of conversation about literature, little action, tons of love”. In an isolated home in the countryside where dreams are in tatters, hopes dashed, hearts broken and there is nowhere left to turn, the only option is to turn on each other.įollowing on from the return of the critically-acclaimed, five-star production of Cyrano deīergerac, The Jamie Lloyd Company brings Chekhov’s masterpiece to the Harold Pinter Theatre from 29 June for 11 weeks only.Ĭhekhov’s The Seagull was the first of his four major plays, with Uncle Vanya, Three Sisters and The Cherry Orchard following. An actress wants to fight the changing of the times. A successful writer longs for a sense of achievement.

A young man is pining after the woman of his dreams. Starring alongside Clarke will be Jason Barnett, Robert Glenister, Tom Rhys Harries, Mika Onyx Johnson, Gerald Kyd, Daniel Monks, Sara Powell, Indira Varma and Sophie Wu.Ī young woman is desperate for fame and a way out. Emilia Clarke (Game of Thrones) makes her West End debut as Nina in Anya Reiss’ unique 21st century modernisation of Anton Chekhov’s The Seagull, with direction by Jamie Lloyd.

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