Hampton has adapted other Chekhov plays - Three Sisters and Uncle Vanya - but he doesn't speak Russian, unless you count a year in high school.
The play - a funny and tragic story about love, success, family and theater - is a new version by Christopher Hampton, who also wrote the screenplays for Atonement, The Quiet American and Dangerous Liaisons. The Royal Court Theatre production opened Thursday at the Walter Kerr Theatre in New York.Īn adaptation of Anton Chekhov's play The Seagull opened Thursday on Broadway.Ī New York Times critic called it: "The finest and most fully involving production of Chekhov that I have ever known."
The cast of The Seagull from left: Pearce Quigley, Kristin Scott Thomas, Ark Malik (standing), Peter Wight and Ann Dowd.
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