The Seagull
A Comedy in 4 Acts
by Anton Chekhov
National Asian American Theatre Company
Theatre for the New City
New York, NY USA
September 2009
direction: Gia Forakis
scenic: Lee Savage
costume: Alixandra Gage Englund
lighting: Stephen Petrilli
sound/composition: Robert Murphy
projection: S. Katy Tucker
assistant director: Tracy Cameron Francis
photography: Bill Steele
NYTimes Review:
Chekhov’s Bird Flies With a Sense of Humor
By Andy Webster
Chekhov’s “Seagull” is given a splash of cool absurdism in the National Asian American Theater Company’s new version, and it’s bracing. What can sometimes be presented as a glum panorama of bourgeois delusion and tragedy (Chekhov insisted, as this troupe does, that the play is a comedy) is here a lively production punctuated by touches of vaudeville and the grotesque.
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