THE SEAGULL by Anton Chekhov

Friday, March 7, 2025
7:30 PM - 9:30 PM (ET)
Schaeffer Theatre 204 - Theatre
Event Type
Performance
Contact
Smith, Courtney
(207) 786-6190
Department
Theater
Link
https://events.bates.edu/MasterCalendar/EventDetails.aspx?EventDetailId=51747

Konstantin is a young playwright struggling with his artistic identity and complicated relationship with his famous actor mother, Arkadina. Konstantin's also in love with Nina, a naive aspiring actor, who’s also infatuated with the more successful writer Trigorin, Arkadina's lover. Aspirations, family, and romantic entanglements inevitably collide, testing Konstantin and Nina’s sense of worth and purpose. Chekhov's wry classic skillfully intertwines the ordinary with the poetic, illustrating the duality of human existence: an existence where our dreams give us the drive to move forward, but our decisions haunt us at every turn. "The Seagull" is a darkly comedic exploration of unfulfilled ambitions, unrequited love, and the bittersweet nature of artistic success.

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