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...Gull (by Anton Chekhov; produced by The Theatre Guild Inc.). One of the things important actors can do is to get a hearing for important plays. When Chekhov's Sea Gull was revived last week with Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne in the cast, it instantly became news as well...
...Chekhov's best play, The Sea Gull ranks well below his incomparable Cherry Orchard, his moving Three Sisters. The people it treats of are fibreless, end-stopped artistic folk. Self-pitying, middle-aged Actress Irina (Lynn Fontanne) shrugs, screams, clutches tight the second-rate novelist, Trigorin (Alfred Lunt). Irina's son Constantine (Richard Whorf) writes advanced plays, loves the ingenuous, stage-struck Nina (Uta Hagen), who in turn idolizes Trigorin. Nina is the sea gull- the fluttering bird whom Trigorin ruins out of thoughtless pleasure, condemning her to the life of a third-rate actress, driving Constantine...
Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne have abandoned "Amphitryon," and come to Boston to fill roles, not subordinate but also not outstanding, in Anton Chekhov's "The Sea Gull." An odd assortment of characters, splendidly delineated, are mixed together, and allowed to react. The plot is thus simply a series of their chance encounters and repulsions, and seems devoid of design. The characters are all more or less frustrated, and the events produced out of them are all gloomy. But the play, though discursive and depressing, is packed with incidental dramatic values of great force, and contains several large chunks...
...killed himself, she accepting the doctor's assurance that the sound of the shot came from an explosion in his medicine kit. The same mother and son, in traditional Russian fashion curse each other for their respective faults and then fall weeping into each other's arms. A sea gull killed by the young man, is made to stand for the girl he loves, a young, unwise person seduced and made miserable by a bland, second-rate author, the mother's lover...
...leading role. Miss Page says she is John Wilkes Booth's great-granddaughter. Over the border in Vermont, the Brattleboro Theatre, on whose board sit Constance Morrow Morgan (see p. 56) and Thornton Wilder, begins its season late in July. The Front Page and The Sea Gull will be featured. Burlington's Green Mountain Playhouse started doing business last week...