Word: trigorin
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...little play sounds like Words worth rewriting Manfred. It is the funniest satire of its kind since Dickens' Two Transcendental Ladies in Martin Chuzzlewit ("Mind and matter glide swift into the vortex of immensity. Howls the sublime and softly sleeps the calm Ideal, in the whispering chambers of Imagination.") Trigorin, the writer, is corpulent with sensitivity. He is incapable of both love and brutality, the romantic gestures of pity and hatred. He is wildly popular, and decently agonized about it. He is closed off to the turmoil of the dilating implications of things, a receptivity which may be inspirational...
...SEAGULL reaches its climax with Arkadina's line to Trigorin, "I'm the only who knows the truth about you." But the candor of detached analysis is only more sophisticated romantic illusion. Self-revelation is a mist of uncynical dream and deception. And this leads to the main reason why the audience feels depressed rather than exhilarated by a Chekhov comedy. The audience can rarely indulge in detached laughter at the characters' expense, because there is no comic spectacle of abstracted human follies on stage, only a concentration of suggestions and perceptions of errors which the audience understand no more...
...plot. At the country estate of a retired civil servant named Sorin (Harry Andrews) is assembled a group of people who over the course of two years will quietly destroy one another: Sorin's sister Arkadina (Simone Signoret), an aging actress vacationing in the country with her lover Trigorin (James Mason), a successful author; Arkadina's son Konstantin (David Warner), who yearns also to be a writer; and Nina (Vanessa Redgrave), an aspiring actress worshiped by Konstantin and enamored of Trigorin. Almost ritualistically, they feed on each other's weaknesses and delusions...
...does John Williams, as Trigorin, deteriorate in his key scenes. But he doesn't use them to reveal much of his character. Williams maintains a gently amused tone, never suggesting the almost accidentally ruthless element in Trigorin...
Virginia Morris, as Arcadina, is a prime example. In the mass scenes she is magnificent. She radiates her egotism, her impatience, with every gesture. But in flattering her lover, Trigorin, into returning to the city with her, she is curiously false and ineffective. It was there I expected to find out just how strong Arcadina was. At the Loeb she seems weak--yet Trigorin gives...