A dense, but immensely rewarding exploration of the ending of The Seagull. The joy, humor, beauty, frustation, and heart-rending tragedy of two fatally flawed but hopelessly real people, delivered with the same relentless, concurrent, inexplicable cadence as real life.
The writing is intentional and multi-faceted - very few elements of the script exist that do not serve to parallel, reinforce, or layer the meaning of the rest, but it's easy to miss many of those meanings. The direction and acting of the play is snappy, never pausing to let your thoughts resolve on any one scene - something that could be considered a strength or a weakness, depending on your mindset coming in.
Much work was done in direction and acting to inject the play wi...
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