The Sea-Gull

“I dress in black to match my life,” Masha tells the man who loves her. Behind them, a rough little stage hides a lake waiting for the moonrise.

On a sultry evening at Sorin’s country estate, a makeshift theatre is taking shape among the trees. Constantine Treplieff has built it for a daring new play—and for Nina, the young woman he adores, who must slip away from her watchful family to perform. But the audience includes his famous actress mother and a celebrated writer, and Treplieff already feels like a nobody beside them. As old ideas of theatre face his hunger for something new, love and ambition gather at the edge of the stage. When the curtain rises, will Nina—and Treplieff’s play—find the audience he longs for?

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