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Who Played Arkadina in The Seagull

Arkadina is a role in The Seagull that opened Off-Broadway in 2001.

The renowned scholar Michael Henry Heim, professor of Slavic languages and literature at the University of California, has written a brilliant new translation of this play that established Chekhov. One of the first productions of the Moscow Art Theatre, the plot deals with a young Treplev, his unfulfilled literary ambitions and his love for Nina. Convinced that he has lost her and furious at her attention to the literary lion, Trigorin, the despairing young man kills a seagull and lays it at Nina's feet as a symbol of his ruined hopes. Nina leaves with Trigorin, only to return later after Trigorin has lost interest in her. In a moving half-coherent speech, she compares herself to the seagull destroyed by a man's momentary whim. In this translation, Professor Heim gives us a fluent, utterly Chekhovian text without making it so contemporary that the play loses its sense of period. This is The Seagull that soars.

6 actors have played Arkadina in The Seagull.

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Performer Production Opened
Annette Hunt Off-Broadway The Seagull 1980
Rosemary Harris Off-Broadway The Seagull 1980
Barbara Cason Off-Broadway The Seagull 1983
Meryl Streep Off-Broadway The Seagull 2001
Dianne Wiest Off-Broadway The Seagull 2008
Indira Varma West End The Seagull 2020

Other Roles in The Seagull

Role Production Opened
Arkadina Off-Broadway The Seagull 2001
Dorn Off-Broadway The Seagull 2001
Konstantin Off-Broadway The Seagull 2001
Masha Off-Broadway The Seagull 2001
Medvedenko Off-Broadway The Seagull 2001
Nina Off-Broadway The Seagull 2001
Polina Off-Broadway The Seagull 2001
Servant Off-Broadway The Seagull 2001
Shamrayev Off-Broadway The Seagull 2001
Sorin Off-Broadway The Seagull 2001
Trigorin Off-Broadway The Seagull 2001
Yakov Off-Broadway The Seagull 2001

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