11-09-2007, 04:05 PM | #1 |
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Chekhov's "The Seagull"
Funk got free tickets for us to go see the play "The Seagull" by Chekhov but I know almost nothing about it. I'm pretty sure I read one of this plays in my undergraduate work called "The Dumbwaiter," an absurdist play with random toilet flushing sounds in the background and each character's dialogue seemingly unrelated to the other characters.
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Here's some stuff, it's about the shooting of a Seagull was all I remembered, but here goes:
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I love the story The Lady with the Pet Dog. Just re-read it the other day.
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11-09-2007, 04:24 PM | #4 |
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Well, at least Chekhov got to die drinking, right?
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11-09-2007, 04:40 PM | #5 |
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I have not seen the Seagull. I have seen the Chery Orchard a couple of times and love it. I recall seeing it for the first time when I was about 12 at what was then (and may still be) the Pioneer Memorial Theater at the U of U. I was very moved by the production. Go with an open mind and I am confident that you will like it.
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11-10-2007, 04:46 AM | #7 |
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The play was brilliant
I loved it. Of course, nobody was happy and somebody had to die, but it's theatre! There were obvious Hamlet comparisons throughout. The guy who commits suicide is broody and melancholic and wants to produce fabulous, "new forms" writing... There's even a play within the play, like in Hamlet. Oh, and a ridiculous mother having an affair of sorts. Yet the whole thing was settled in the turn-of-the-century setting, with a wannabe Bohemian. Fascinating, fascinating play.
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