Without having enough money to support his lifestyle, Professor Serebryakov has to stay in the estate of his deceased wife. Uncle Vanya in the Staatstheater Cottbus, Germany Petersburg’s Alexandrinsky Theater and failed miserably. Chekhov didn’t attend the Moscow premier because two years prior the play debuted on the stage in St. “Seagull” was staged at the Moscow Art Theater by Konstantin Stanislavsky and Vladimir Nemirovich-Danchenko in 1898, garnering much success. They mix up life and art, and look for fame, ignoring human relations. They are keen on arts, try to act, write and compose but can’t admit that they actually have no talent.

These people are not able to work, they live in their fantasies, and usually have no money.

In “Seagull” Chekhov focuses on the topic he would further develop in his other plays about the decline of the 19th century Russian nobility. As a result, Nina falls in love with a man complimenting her, while Treplev is sure his play’s failure made her turn away from him. However, everyone criticizes the play’s decadence, making the author upset. The amateur play’s premier gathers friends and neighbors, and Nina’s acting is praised by admirers (and men who find her attractive). And one day Treplev shoots a seagull and brings its dead body to Nina. She says that she is driven to the theater like a seagull to the lake. She dreams of becoming an actress, but her parents object. He invites a neighbor's daughter, Nina (who he is in love with), to play the leading role. The amateur playwright Konstantin Treplev is staging a play that he wrote in his uncle’s countryside estate.

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