Unique Facts
Acting/Style
Themes
Characters
100
This Shakespearean play is often compared to The Seagull.
What is Hamlet? Konstantin Hamlet -- Arkadina Gertrude -- Trigorin Claudius
100
This is the genre of The Seagull
What is a comedy?
100
These characters, Nina and Trigorin face this theme conflict.
What is age and youth?
100
This character feels sorry for themself throughout the whole play.
Who are all of them?
200
This person played Trigorin in the first successful production of The Seagull.
Who is Stanislavsky?
200
This motivates all of Chekhov's dialogue.
What is subtext?
200
This theme most prevalently affects Nina and Treplyov.
What is love vs. career expectation?
200
This is the main character of The Seagull.
Who is no one?
300
This person debuted on Broadway in 1938 as Nina.
Who is Uta Hagen?
300
Stanislavsky developed this type of acting through directing Chekhov's plays.
What is method acting?
300
These characters experience the common theme of the miseries of being an artist.
Who are Arkadina, Nina, Treplyov, Trigorin, and all of us?
300
This causes the characters to achieve nothing.
What is the inability of action?
400
This person starred as Arkadina in New York Shakespeare's Production of The Seagull in 2001.
Who is Meryl Streep?
400
This upset Chekhov about Stanislavsky's first production of The Seagull
What is melodrama?
400
These 5 people have a firm grasp of Chekhov's themes.
Who are Gabrielle Mann, Desiree Garneau, Richard Hann, Logan Hurd and Meryl Streep?
400
These are Masha's parents.
Who are Polina and Shamraev?