![]() ![]() He suffered one of the most traumatic experiences of his life and vowed never to write for the stage again. When supporters wrote to him that the production later became a success, he assumed that they were merely trying to be kind. Chekhov left the audience and spent the last two acts behind the scenes. Vera Komissarzhevskaya, playing Nina, was so intimidated by the hostility of the audience that she lost her voice. It was very badly received, almost hissed off the stage. The opening night of the first production was a famous failure. The characters often feel and think things not expressed in the lines they speak. Chekhov often expressed his thought not in speeches, but in pauses or between the lines or in replies consisting of a single word. Characters tend to speak in ways that skirt around issues rather than addressing them directly. ![]() In contrast to the melodrama of the mainstream theatre of the 19th century, lurid actions are not shown onstage. ![]() ![]() The character of Trigorin is considered Chekhov’s greatest male role, though as with the rest of Chekhov’s full-length plays, The Seagull relies upon an ensemble cast of diverse, fully developed characters. ![]()
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