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The Marion Art Center's production of Anton Chekhov's Seagull, will open on Friday, November 1st and will run on Saturday, November 2nd, at 8:00pm and Sunday, November 3rd (matinee performance at 4:00), Friday, November 8th and Saturday, November 9th at 8:00pm.  The comedy in four acts is being directed by Rex McGraw and uses a modern translation by Curt Columbus, Artistic Director of Trinity-Rep Theater in Providence.  Many of the same actors who were in Marion Art Center's production of Uncle Vanya in 2009, have returned and a few new actors have joined the cast to make this production of Seagull a rich and vibrant, and yes - even funny -slice-of-life drama set in the Russian countryside at the end of the 19th century. The cast of characters is layered with all classes from Russian life:  literary intelligencia, doctors, grand actresses, estate managers, cooks and servants.   Some desire love.  Some desire success. Some desire artistic genius.  Some just do their jobs every day without complaint.  And, everyone seems to be in love with someone who is not in love them.  At its Russian premiere in 1896, "Seagull" outraged many in the opening night audience, who hissed and hooted. The first reviews were no kinder, causing Chekhov to wonder if "I had lost all sensitivity." But at least one member of that first audience, the jurist and literary aficionado Anatoly Koni, believed the play had achieved something new and important.  "It is life itself onstage," wrote Koni to Chekhov, "with all its tragic alliances, eloquent thoughtlessness and silent sufferings - the sort of everyday life that is accessible to everyone and understood in its cruel internal irony by almost no one."

"Seagull" dramatizes the romantic and artistic conflicts between four main characters: the famous story writer Boris Trigorin (played by David Horne), the ingenue Nina (played by Clare Healy Foley), the fading actress Irina Arkadina (played by Cynthia Latham), and her son, the aspiring symbolist playwright, Constantine Treplev (played by Jeffery Gately).  It is set on a rural estate surrounded by a tranquil countryside and a beautiful, almost magical lake.  The estate is owned by Peter Sorin, brother of Arkadina,  (played by Paul Kandarian), a retired civil servant of the Russian Army.  The estate is managed by a stubborn, ornery man named Shamrayev (played by Thom O'Shaughnessey), who is married to Paulina (played by Suzie Kokkins).  Paulina hates her husband and is in love with Dr. Dorn (played by Jay Ryan) who does not love her in return.  The estate manager has a daughter named Masha (played by Michele Letourneau) who is in love with Constantine, who is in love with Nina, who is in love with Trigorin.  The school teacher, Medvedanko (played by Gary Taylor) is hopelessly in love with Masha, but she does not return his ardor.  There is a serious unrequited love theme here!  Through all the weeping, wailing and shouting, the old cook (played by Deborah Bokelkamp) and Yakov, a young servant, (played by Hunter Patrick) quietly go about their business tending to the demands of the estate while seeing to it that every whim of the members of the household is satisfied.