| The Seagull Contributor(s): Chekhov, Anton (Author), Frayn, Michael (Translator), Megson, Chris (Editor) |
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ISBN: 0413771008 ISBN-13: 9780413771001 Publisher: Methuen Drama OUR PRICE: $14.20 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: February 2009 Annotation: Student edition of Chekhov's classic, in the highly renowned translation by best-selling playwright Michael Frayn, author of "Copenhagen," All the Methuen Student Editions contain commentaries, contexts, chronologies and notes on the translations by experts in theatre studies. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Drama | European - English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh - Drama | Russian & Former Soviet Union |
| Dewey: 891.723 |
| Series: Methuen Drama Modern Plays |
| Physical Information: 0.7" H x 5" W x 8" (0.45 lbs) 192 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: A Methuen Student Edition of Chekhov's classic play in Michael Frayn's acclaimed translation 'The play has been flooded with light, like a room with the curtains drawn back' John Peter, Sunday Times'The direct simplicity of this new translation ... uncovers not only the nerve endings of Chekhov's restless malcontents but also their comic absurdities. It is, as he always intended, actually funny ...' Jack Tinker, Daily MailWhen it opened in St Petersburg in 1896, The Seagull survived only five performances after a disastrous first night. Two years later it was revived by Nemirovich-Danchenko at the newly-founded Moscow Art Theatre with Stanslasky as Trigorin and was an immediate success. Checkhov's description of the play was characteristically self-mocking: A comedy - 3F, 6M, four acts, rural scenery (a view over a lake); much talk of literature, little action, five bushels of love.Michael Frayn's translation was commissioned by the Oxford Playhouse Company. |
Contributor Bio(s): Megson, Chris: - CHRIS MEGSON is Senior Lecturer in Drama and Theatre at Royal Holloway College, University of London, UK. His recent publications include The Methuen Drama Book of Naturalist Plays (2010); his book on The Seventies, for 'Methuen's Decades of Modern British Playwrighting' series, is forthcoming in 2012. He has published widely on British theatre culture since 1968 and documentary/Tribunal theatre.Frayn, Michael: - Michael Frayn is the author of ten novels, including the bestselling Headlong, which was a New York Times Editors' Choice selection and a Booker Prize finalist, and Spies, which received the Whitbread Fiction Award. He has also written a memoir, My Father's Fortune, and fifteen plays, among them Noises Off and Copenhagen, which won three Tony Awards. He lives just south of London. Chekhov, Anton: - Anton Chekhov was born in 1860 in a small town on the Sea of Azov. His plays include Ivanov, Platonov, Uncle Vanya, On the High Road, and The Proposal, among others. As he was beginning to gain international recognition as a major dramatist, he suffered two heart attacks and died in Badenweiler, Germany. |