It explores the romantic and artistic tension in the relationships between a young woman. Petersburg, are married and live in France. The Seagull by Anton Chekhov The Seagull is the first of Anton Checkovs four full-length plays. Pevear, a native of Boston, and Volokhonsky, of St. Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (18601904) was a Russian doctor, playwright, and author. Their translations of The Brothers Karamazov and Anna Karenina won the PEN Translation Prize in 19, respectively. Chekhov's setting on Sorin's estate provides an inactive backdrop for his characters to dramatically explore their thoughts and opinions on life and themselves as they pass the time telling each other stories and dreams. Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky have translated the works of Leo Tolstoy, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Nikolai Gogol, Anton Chekhov, Boris Pasternak and Mikhail Bulgakov. A distinction can be made about characters in The Seagull as either self- aware or completely devoid of self-consciousness. Richard Nelson’s many plays include The Apple Family: Scenes from Life in the Country (That Hopey Changey Thing, Sweet and Sad, Sorry, Regular Singing) The Gabriels: Election Year in the Life of One Family (Hungry, What Did You Expect?, Women of a Certain Age) Nikolai and the Others Goodnight Children Everywhere (Olivier Award for Best Play) Franny’s Way Some Americans Abroad Frank’s Home Two Shakespearean Actors and James Joyce’s The Dead (with Shaun Davey Tony Award for Best Book of a Musical).

The restored text, a product of the continuing collaboration of playwright Richard Nelson and translators Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky, provides valuable insight into Chekhov’s intentions in his groundbreaking play. The Seagull, in this new translation for TCG’s Russian Drama Series, includes lines and variants found in Chekhov’s final version of the play, but omitted from the script for the original performance at the Moscow Art Theatre in 1898, which went on to become the standard printed version. “Pevear and Volokhonsky are at once scrupulous translators and vivid stylists of English.” -James Wood, New Yorker

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