Drama, General & Miscellaneous Drama

The Seagull

Name: The Seagull
Author: Anton Chekhov
ISBN: 9781849434256

by Anton Chekhov, Anya Reiss (Adapted by)

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Overview

In this new adaptation of Chekhov's undisputed masterpiece, award-winning playwright Anya Reiss places the darkly tragicomic story in a contemporary setting, thereby revealing new truths and questions for audiences both new and versed.

About the Author, Anton Chekhov

Anya Reiss wrote her first play when she was 14, as a member of the Royal Court Theatre's Young Wrtiers' Programme. Her debut play, Spur of the Moment (written when she was 17) opened at the Royal Court Theatre in 2010. Anya won the Most Promising Playwright Award at the 2010 Evening Standard Awards, Best New Play at the 2010 TMA Awards and Most Promising Playwright at the 2010 Critics' Circle Awards. He latest play, The Acid Test, opened at the Royal Court in May 2011 and received rave reviews. She also contributed to the Bush Theatre's Sixty Six Books in 2011 and the Old Vic's Children's Monologues in 2010. She has also written the play Forty Five Minutes for the 2013 National Theatre Connections.

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Editorials

Weekly Standard

Senelick . . . has done his job as scholar and translator nearly to perfection.

From the Publisher

"The play has been flooded with light, like a room with the curtains drawn back."— John Peter, Sunday Times

"The direct simplicity of this new translation … uncovers not only the nerve endings of Chekhov's restless malcontents but also their comic absurdities. It is, as he always intended, actually funny."—Jack Tinker, Daily Mail