Near the end of his life, Tennessee Williams\' chance to interpret The Sea Gull was realized at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, where a production which brought Chekhov\'s buried conflicts to the surface was produced in 1980.
The dialogue resonates with echoes of the themes Williams developed as his signatures-compassion for the artistic soul and its vulnerability in the face of the world\'s successfully practiced duplicity (Act I)..
But if the words in The Notebook of Trigorin are essentially Chekhov\'s, the voice belongs firmly to Tennessee Williams.
Only in the final scenes do all discover that the price for love and fragility can be horribly high.
Trigorin cannot keep himself from consuming everything of value in Constantine\'s life.
His rival for both women is Trigorin, an established author bound to Arkadina by her patronage of his work, and attracted to Nina by her beauty.
Constantine, a young writer, must compete for the attention of his mother, a self-obsessed, often comical aging actress, Madame Arkadina, and his romantic ideal, Nina.
Set on a provincial Russian Estate, its peaceful environs offer stark contrast to the turbulent lives of its characters.
The Notebook of Trigorin is faithful to Chekhov\'s story of longing and unrequited love.
From the master twentieth-century playwright Tennessee Williams-an Adaptation of Chekhov\'s The Sea Gull , never before available to the general trade.
Williams\' genius, combined with the powerful Russian classic by Anton Chekhov, creates a daring new concept for today\'s American theatre.
Near the end of his life, Tennessee Williams\' chance to interpret The Sea Gull was realized at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, where a production which brought Chekhov\'s buried conflicts to the surface was produced in 1980
