The Seagull - Anton Chekhov

It dramatises the romantic and artistic conflicts between four characters: the famous middlebrow story writer Boris Trigorin, the ingenue Nina, the fading actress Irina Arkadina, and her son the symbolist playwright Konstantin Tréplev.…The opening night of the first production was a famous failure. Vera Komissarzhevskaya, playing Nina, was so intimidated by the hostility of the audience that she lost her voice.[2] Chekhov left the audience and spent the last two acts behind the scenes. When supporters wrote to him that the production later became a success, he assumed that they were merely trying to be kind.[2] When Konstantin Stanislavsky, the seminal Russian theatre practitioner of the time, directed it in 1898 for his Moscow Art Theatre, the play was a triumph. Stanislavski's production of The Seagull became "one of the greatest events in the history of Russian theatre and one of the greatest new developments in the history of world drama".[3]”Here is a link to a televised production of the play from 1975.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qiPfPzt8azc Here is a link to a 1968 film of the play.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ck7tYDXuv4Y It is recommended that we read the play, as well as watching one or both of the above productions. There are a myriad number of translations. Tom Stoppard has done one that looks promising.