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4 unusual facts about ''The Seagull''


Adélaïde Leroux

While in college, she played lead roles in plays such as Henrik Ibsen's Hedda Gabler and Anton Chekhov's The Seagull.

Carrie Quinlan

She started out performing in the theatre, appearing in plays such as Hedda Gabler, As You Like It, Measure for Measure and The Seagull.

Maria Heiskanen

She played in Kungliga Dramatiska Teatern and in Riksteatern where she for example performed the role of Masja in Anton Chekhovs The Seagull (2008) directed by Lars Norén.

My Life in Art

Stanislavski spends most of this section describing in dramatic detail his relationship with Anton Chekhov and the productions of Chekhov's plays, beginning with their first production of "The Seagull", which had been originally staged in St. Petersburg, and ending with their production of "The Cherry Orchard" in 1904 and Chekhov's death that same year.


Emily Winter

She is currently a member of the Dundee Rep ensemble with whom she has performed in The Graduate, Peter Pan, The Seagull, The Winter's Tale and Cabaret.

Nicolas Stemann

The first time he received national attention was through the production of his Trilogy of Terror in 1997 at Kampnagel in Hamburg and Hoftheater Gostner in Nuremberg (Antigone by Sophocles, The Seagull by Anton Chekhov, Leonce and Lena by Georg Büchner).

Nikki Einfeld

While an Adler Fellow with San Francisco Opera, she performed many roles including Mascha in The Queen of Spades by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Papagena in The Magic Flute, Serpina in La Serva Padrona by Giovanni Battista Pergolesi, the title role in Rita by Gaetano Donizetti and Pauline in The Seagull.

Thanos Samaras

Some of his stage work includes Anton in Marius von Mayenburg's Eldorado, Treplyov in Chekhov's The Seagull, Carl in Sarah Kane's Cleansed (Horn award nomination for Best New Actor), Oswald in Ibsen's Ghosts, Darren in Gary Owen's The Drowned World a.o.


see also

Catherine Bailey

She is an associate member of The Factory Theatre Company, having appeared in many of their productions including Hamlet, The Seagull, Round 1, Round 2 and As You Like It.

Costa Rita

It was released in April 2006 on 7" vinyl only. The B-side includes a live performance of the song Billy the Seagull which was recorded at a show in Bangor, North Wales. The B-side also includes the song "Where is My Cake?" which contains vocals by co-writer Rowena Finlayson.

Margrét Vilhjálmsdóttir

Her biggest movies are probably Mávahlátur (The Seagull's Laughter), based on the book by Kristín Marja Baldursdóttir and Falcons, in which she co-starred with Keith Carradine.

Rick Farmiloe

He has been part of some of Disney's most profitable animated features, such as The Little Mermaid, in which he animated the character of Scuttle the seagull, and on Aladdin, in which he animated the monkey Abu.

Sally Lapiduss

Lapiduss is a 1974 graduate of Taylor Allderdice High School in Pittsburgh and worked at the Pittsburgh Public Theater in the late 1970s when she was "discovered" by Katharine Hepburn when she arrived in town to see a production of the Seagull, Lapiduss became Hepburn's assistant.

Yelizaveta Tarakhovskaya

Since then, she wrote many children's books, including Metropolitan (1932), The Moon and the Lazy Fellow (1933), The Seagull (1965, dedicated to Valentina Tereshkova, Soviet Russian cosmonaut, the first woman to go into space).