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OUTDOOR STAGING OF `SEAGULL' FLIES HIGH

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From: The Boston Globe
Date: 20050721
Author:Thomas Garvey, Globe Correspondent

CHELSEA Most people think of Anton Chekhov as a playwright of the interior at least the psychological interior, as his work inspired the inward style of acting that still dominates the stage today. But with its new staging of "The Seagull," performed in both English and Spanish on the lawn of Mary O'Malley Park, Chelsea's intrepid TheatreZone makes a strong case for Chekhov al fresco. This double outing may offer few fresh insights into the master, but its natural setting is always evocative live specimens of the title avian often hover overhead and the slow sunset and deepening gloom ...

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