Overview
Tom Stoppard made this English version for the Peter Hall Company at the Old Vic. Here, amid "the weariness of life in the country", the famous actress Arkadina presides over a household riven with desperate love, with dreams of success and dread of failure. Her son, Konstantin, shoots a seagull; the novelist, Trigorin, will one day write the'seagull's story; but it is Nina, "the'seagull" he'self, whose life to come will rewrite the story.