|The Seagull|

Comedy in four acts

Opening night: July 9, 1980
Running time: 3 h, with one intermission
Ticket price range: 250—2000 rub.
The staging of the most famous Chekhov's play. From “Seagull” Moscow Art Theatre begun it's existence. And in 1980 Oleg Efremov presented it in a style of Russian Thearte School with traditionally deep and exact perusal of the text.
Renewed in 2001 performance didn't lose Efremov's depth, but found the second breath owing to actors. Young masters of a stage in their own way read through immortal images of “Seagull”, keeping the figure of roles given by director and the general atmosphere of the statement. Performance begun to breathe in today's rhythm owing to outstanding actor's works which deserve the most rapt attention of public.
Staging and direction
Oleg Efremov
Set designer
Valery Levental
Lighting designer
Efim Udler, Igor Efimov
Assistant director
Olga Roslyakova
Characters & Cast
Irina Nikolaevna Arkadina
Trepleva (husband's name), actress
Irina Miroshnichenko, Irina Apeksimova, Evgeniya Dobrovol'skaya
Konstantin Gavrilovich Treplev
her son, young man
Yury Chursin, Yevgeny Mironov
Petr Nikolaevich Sorin
her brother
Vladlen Davydov, Viacheslav Nevinny, Sergey Sosnovsky
Nina Mikhailovna Zarechnaya
young lady, the dauther of a rich landowner
Marina Salakova, Anastasia Skorik
Iliya Afanasievich Shamraev
retired lieutenant, Sorin's steward
Vladimir Krasnov
Polina Andreevna
his wife
Nina Kilimnik, Nataliya Egorova, Rimma Korosteleva
Boris Alekseevich Trigorin
fiction writer
Mikhail Khomyakov, Anatoly Beliy
Evgenii Sergeevich Dorn
doctor
Boris Plotnikov
Semen Semenovich Medvedenko
teacher
Eduard Chekmazov, Oleg Topolyanskiy
Yakov
labourer
Nikita Panfilov, Grigory Rizhikov