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From: The Village Voice
Date: 19980609
Author:Russo, Francine

The Seagull By Anton Chekhov Theatre Four 424 West 55th Street 239-6200

Talk about drama: The Seagull had it all-love affairs, an illegitimate birth, a baby's death, a suicide. But the real drama in 1896 was that Chekhov broke all the rules: he showed none of these gutwrenching events onstage. Instead, he tossed on a collection of folk who merely reacted to all the juicy stuff. Talk, talk, talk. But these babblers were memorable eccentrics and egotists, monsters and pets, innocents and world-weary sophisticates.

To create dialogue that would impress them more forcibly upon us, Tom Stoppard, ...

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