The Seagull
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CURRENTLY CLOSED
Opened Oct 2, 2008
Closed Dec 21, 2008
Opened Oct 2, 2008
Closed Dec 21, 2008
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Running Time:
2hr. 40min.
(includes 1 intermission)
2hr. 40min.
(includes 1 intermission)
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WHAT IS IT ABOUT?
Kristin Scott Thomas reprises her Olivier Award-winning role of Arkadina in the critically acclaimed Royal Court Theatre production of Anton Chekhov's The Seagull. The production, featuring a new version by Christopher Hampton, is directed by Ian Rickson.
The play concerns the romantic entanglements and regrets of a group of actors, writers and artists gathered on a Russian estate. One of the theatre's great plays about writing, The Seagull conveys the struggle for new forms and the frustrations and fulfillment of putting words on a page.
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Ian Rickson's Royal Court production of The Seagull, now at the Walter Kerr, comes to Manhattan in a fusillade of glowing adjectives and deserves most of them. The most prominent praise-snatcher is Olivier Award-winner Kristin Scott Thomas, whose interpretation of mercurial middle-aged actress Arkadina is its own thrilling fireworks display. There isn't a facet of Anton Chekhov's actress that she doesn't flash in a performance akin to the mesmerizing, rock-sized diamond she wears on her finger.
Thomas' range is so wide that at one moment she's leaping in the air to demonstrate the joy she takes in her career and the next descending into despair over her inability to reach suicidal s[...]