Anton Chekhov's The Seagull (Broadway Theatre Archive)
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Actor: Blythe Danner, David Clennon, George Ede, Lee Grant, Olympia DukakisDirector: John Desmond
Brand: Image Entertainment
Editor: Girish Bhargava
Producer: David Griffiths
Producer: Jac Venza
Producer: Lindsay Law
Writer: Anton Chekhov
Writer: Stark Young
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 1.0
Format: Color, DVD, Full Screen, NTSC
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 120 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2002-02-05
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: Image Entertainment
Movie Reviews of Anton Chekhov's The Seagull (Broadway Theatre Archive)
Movie Review: A play within a play
Summary: 5 Stars
I thought this was going to be some sort of artsy animal that you had to study and have a background in literature to extrapolate anything from the play. Well I was wrong. The only extraction is getting used to the characters at first because they are played by famous actors for example Frank Langella plays Konstantin Treplev, an idealistic young playwright and Blythe Danner plays Nina a young girl who's head will be turned by the novelist Trigorin played by Kevin McCarthy.
Soon you settle down and realize that this film has something to say about people and life and getting along with each other. It does not need to be interpreted and you find that even though the location is in a different place and time (Russia 1896), the people are the same people that you already know. The play moves a tad fast so you will need to re-watch it for all the nuances.
Hamlet / Kline, New York Shakespeare Festival (Broadway Theatre Archive)
Summary of Anton Chekhov's The Seagull (Broadway Theatre Archive)
This quintessential Chekhov drama--his first success--is both comic and tragic. A group of friends and relations gather at a country estate to see the first performance of an experimental play written and staged by the young man of the house, Konstantin (Frank Langella), an aspiring writer who dreams of bringing new forms to the theatre. Among the audience are Konstantin's self-centered mother, the actress Arkadina, and her lover, the novelist Trigorin. Their glamorous presence not only disrupts the performance, but also soon takes on a more profound significance for the lives of all those present.Anton Chekhov's The Seagull centers around impassioned would-be writer Konstantin (Frank Langella, Dracula), who hopes to write plays that will shatter what he sees as the clumsy, artificial constraints of theater. But his self-indulgent mother (Lee Grant, Shampoo), a famed actress, dismisses his efforts. Her lover (Kevin McCarthy, Invasion of the Body Snatchers), a successful novelist, patronizes Konstantin and steals away the young man's beloved Nina (Blythe Danner, Meet the Parents). Chekhov is above all a poet of love--not the raptures of consummation, but the misery of love unrequited, misdirected, spurned, and abused. His eloquent tales of heartbreak have a phenomenal compassion for the weaknesses and flaws of human beings. This TV movie, based on the 1975 production at the Williamstown Theatre Festival, is intelligent and warm, with excellent performances from Langella, Danner, and Grant in particular. --Bret Fetzer
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