In an enchanting rural estate, a middle-aged famous actress Irina Arkadina, and her lover, a successful novelist Boris Trigorin, visit Arkadina’s old brother Sorin, a retired civil servant. The reason of this visit is to watch the play Arkadina’s son Konstantin Treplev has written and directed. The play begins with a young, aspiring actress Nina Zarietchnaya’s monologue.

Arkadina is jealous of Nina’s youth and talent that treats his son’s play rudely by keeping interrupting the performance with irony. Feeling humiliated by his mother, Kostantin soon has to end the performance with utter rage.

Nina, who Kostantin loves, is impressed by Trigorin’s success and ignores Kostantin by showing her interest towards Trigorin. Kostantin shoots a seagull and shows it to Nina as a symbol of his destroyed dreams.

Although Nina manages to run away with Trigorin, their relationship does not succeed. Trigorin soon turns back to Arkadina and Nina’s life turns upside down.

Years pass, Kostantin becomes a successful playwright while still gets no acknowledgement from his mother. Nina returns unexpectedly in misery to say goodbye to Kostantin before leaving the country.

Feeling the loss of motivation, Kostantin enters the house in silence and disappears while his mother Arkadina plays cards with the guests in another room.

Our performance is a one-hour composition and the scenes accompanied by Sergei Rachmaninoff’s music pieces, played on live piano. 

The cast was chosen from our Brookes Moscow students from Years 10, 11, 12 and 13:

ROLES	ACTORS
Konstantin Treplev	Andemirkan Abregov
Irina Arkadina	Dasha Orekhova, Kirsten-Mariè Vermaak
Nina Zarietchnaya	Sofiya Stenina, Karolina Ifraimova
Boris Trigorin	Nikita Markosyan
Sorin	Arina Chukhno
Dorn	Margarita Nekhorosheva
Masha	Arina Alaverdyan, Ana Alugishvili
Shamrayev	Aliciah Oduor
Paulina	Preston Draper