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MODERN FEEL BUOYS CHEKHOV'S "SEAGULL'.(Local)(Theater review)

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From: The Post-Standard (Syracuse, NY)
Date: 20070316
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Byline: Tony Curulla Contributing writer

The Boot and Buskin Theatre Club of Le Moyne College has staged an interesting and very accessible version of Anton Chekhov's "The Seagull."

This version was newly translated by award-winning contemporary playwright Tom Stoppard, and while it retains its pre-Russian Revolution roots in terms of its social and political frameworks, its language rhythms are more accommodating to the modern, especially American, ear.

The play, first performed in 1896, marks a clear line separating Chekhov's earlier period in which he penned his ...

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