The notebook of trigorin: a free adaptation of chechkov's the sea gull - tennessee williams

Near the end of his life, Tennessee Williams chance to interpret The Sea Gull was realized at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, where a production which brought Chekhovs buried conflicts to the surface was produced in 1980.

Williams genius, combined with the powerful Russian classic by Anton Chekhov, creates a daring new concept for todays American theatre.

From the master twentieth-century playwright Tennessee Williams-an adaptation of Chekhovs The Sea Gull , never before available to the general trade.

The Notebook of Trigorin is faithful to Chekhovs story of longing and unrequited love.

Set on a provincial Russian Estate, its peaceful environs offer stark contrast to the turbulent lives of its characters.

Constantine, a young writer, must compete for the attention of his mother, a self-obsessed, often comical aging actress, Madame Arkadina, and his romantic ideal, Nina.

His rival for both women is Trigorin, an established author bound to Arkadina by her patronage of his work, and attracted to Nina by her beauty.

Trigorin cannot keep himself from consuming everything of value in Constantines life.

Only in the final scenes do all discover that the price for love and fragility can be horribly high.

But if the words in The Notebook of Trigorin are essentially Chekhovs, the voice belongs firmly to Tennessee Williams.

The dialogue resonates with echoes of the themes Williams developed as his signatures-compassion for the artistic soul and its vulnerability in the face of the worlds successfully practiced duplicity (Act I).