The Seagull

Winner of the English and Scottish Literature Play Award

Chekhov’s unparalleled exploration of art, ambition and generational tensions. ‘The Seagull’ straddles both heartbreak and humour as the foreground to navigating human creativity and connection. 

As old actress Arkadina, her author lover Trigorin, and playwright son Konstantin visit a family estate, words become weapons and thoughts become currency. Konstantin is haunted by his endeavours to radicalise the ways that stories are told in the theatre, and finds himself spiralling after his love, the young actress Nina, runs away with Trigorin. Chekhov’s heartbreaking, funny and ever-relevant drama epitomises the consequences of ego, ambition and creative idealism into an ornate case-study on the nature of human relationships.