Length2h 10m
About this audiobook
On a tranquil country estate by a lake, a group of friends and family gather, their lives intertwined by love, art, and longing for a future they cannot grasp. Konstantin Treplev, a desperate young writer, seeks to break from the past with a radical new play, starring the beguiling Nina. His mother, the famous actress Irina Arkadina, clings fiercely to her youth and acclaim. Her lover, the celebrated writer Trigorin, is jaded by his own success. As romantic desires shift and ambitions collide, their personal dramas unfold not in grand theatrical gestures, but in the intimate, heartbreaking, and often comic failures of everyday life.
First staged in 1896, The Seagull initially baffled audiences with its revolutionary naturalism. Yet it triumphed to become a cornerstone of world theatre, establishing Chekhov's signature style: a poignant blend of tragedy and comedy, where the most significant actions are the words left unspoken, and the haunting symbol of a dead bird comes to represent all our fragile, wounded dreams.
This masterpiece of subtlety and profound emotion explores the eternal human struggles for artistic integrity, enduring love, and the courage to face the life we have, not the life we imagine.
Audiobook details
GenreLiterary Classics, General Fiction, Romance
Length2 hrs 10 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1By Chekhov in Cactus catalogue:
4ACT II
2CHARACTERS
5ACT III
3ACT I
6ACT IV
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