Saturday, October 18, 2008

The Seagull



First Seagull Flops

On this day in 1896 Anton Chekhov's The Seagull, the first of his masterpieces, premiered in St. Petersburg. The opening night was such a disaster that by Act Two Chekhov was hiding backstage from the jeering, and by 2 a.m., after hours of walking the streets alone, he was declaring, "Not if I live to be seven hundred will I write another play."

Story

My most ambitious hyperdrama is my expansion of Chekhov's work, The Seagull Hyperdrama. Where's the equally ambitious, eccentric producer/director who would do it?

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