The characters populating The Seagull are terribly complicated! They say something but mean something else, they love someone but marry someone else, they are heartbroken but will never tell…. If you would like to know what’s really going on – here is the Seagull Sociogram for a quick study, before the curtain rises.

When Entity announced the auditions for the winter production of Anton Chekhov’s The Seagull, I immediately went to the internet and downloaded the play. I had not read any of Chekhov’s plays or stories before, so I was surprised by my difficulty in making any sense of it at all. OK, I thought, plays are…