The Seagull
Tom Stoppard's masterful translation of Chekov's classic comes to Salt Lake City
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Remains utterly faithful to the original while giving it the lightest dusting of (Stoppard's) own brisk wit... A play that might have been written a hundred days instead of a hundred years ago.
New York Times
Tom Stoppard's masterful translation of Chekov's classic comes to Salt Lake City
Tom Stoppard's masterful translation of Chekov's classic comes to Salt Lake City
Academy and Tony Award-winning British playwright Tom Stoppard's masterful adaptation of Chekov's seminal work has received much critical acclaim for its deeply emotive retelling of the Russian theatre master's wry and tender study of lives unfulfilled. Stoppard's own wit shines through whilst his prose remains faithful to Chekov's original story in Salt Lake City's The Sting & Honey Theatre Company's latest rendition.
A group of well-heeled guests gather at the country house of a retired civil servant, to see a new avant-garde play that his young nephew has written. With a heavy emphasis on symbolism, the play is a disaster and is abandoned after the first act. Emotions running high after the aborted performance, and the audience discovers a tangle of love triangles, self-doubt, and a rampaging pursuit of happiness that threatens to overturn everybody's beliefs and sensibilities.
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