The Seagull

Summary

1966 BBC production of The Seagull by Anton Chekhov.

Theatre play

The Seagull [Chayka] by Anton Chekhov (1860-1904) [more information]

Play synopsis

Comedy. The play 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.

Production history

Written in 1895 and first produced in 1896.

Date of transmission

Sunday 27 March 1966

Time

9.10-11.10

Series

Theatre 625

Channel

BBC2

Production company

BBC

Credits

Director

Alan Cooke

Producer

Cedric Messina

Playwright

Anton Chekhov (1860-1904)

Translator

George Calderon

Designer

Natasha Kroll

Cast

Pamela Brown	Madame Arkadina
John Carlin	Medvedenko
Charles Carson (1885-1977)	Sorin
Annette Crosbie	Masha
Roy Denton	Cook
Gemma Jones	Nina Trafford
Niall MacGinniss	Dorn
John Malcolm	Yakov
Robin Phillips	Konstantin Troplef
Daphne Slater	Paulina
Robert Stephens	Trigorin
Sydney [or Sidney] Tafler	Shamrayef

Additional details

Play tags

19th-century setting; comedy; poetry and literature, as theme; Russian drama

Audiovisual sources

Title

Acting in the Sixties: Robert Stephens (BBC, tx 4 February 1967)

Archive

BBC Information and Archives [more information]

Address

White City
London
UK

Telephone

+44 (0)20 8008 2288

Website

http://www.bbc.co.uk/informationandarchives/

Access

BBC Information and Archives is not open to the public.

Print sources

Title

Radio Times, 24 March 1966 (Magazine)

Linking notes

illustrated article, p. 17; listing, p. 21