Word: treplev
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Russian country estate in two successive summers, the play is built around a series of love triangles. The young writer Constantine Treplev is hopelessly in love with the young and beautiful would-be actress Nina Zarechny. But Nina--the Seagull--is infatuated with Boris Trigorin, the famous novelist and lover of the actress Irina Arkadina. Constantine's mother. At the same time, Masha, the daughter of the estate manager, is deeply and futilely in love with Constantine, though she herself is loved by the local schoolteacher. As these characters work out their separate fates, the play explores the relationship...