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From: The Village Voice
Date: 19990316
Author:McNulty, Charles

The Seagull By Anton Chekhov .Ohio Theater 66 Wooster Street 358-357

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By Diane Bank

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I can't say Pm not enjoying writing it," Chekhov wrote to his publisher in 1895 about The Seagull, "though I'm flagrantly disregarding the basic tenets of the stage. The comedy has three female roles, six male roles, four acts, a landscape (a view of a lake), much conversation about literature, little action, and five tons of love "

Constantine Treplev, the struggling avantgarde writer in The Seagull, flouts conventional dramaturgy ...

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