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Who Played Treplev in The Seagull

Treplev is a role in The Seagull that opened Off-Broadway in 1983.

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.

3 actors have played Treplev in The Seagull.

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Performer Production Opened
Brent Spiner Off-Broadway The Seagull 1980
Michael Butler (ii) Off-Broadway The Seagull 1980
Richard Thomas Off-Broadway The Seagull 1983

Other Roles in The Seagull

Role Production Opened
Arkadina Off-Broadway The Seagull 1983
Arkadina/Paulina Off-Broadway The Seagull 1983
Cook Off-Broadway The Seagull 1983
Dorn Off-Broadway The Seagull 1983
Maid Off-Broadway The Seagull 1983
Masha Off-Broadway The Seagull 1983
Medvedenko Off-Broadway The Seagull 1983
Nina Off-Broadway The Seagull 1983
Nina/Masha Off-Broadway The Seagull 1983
Paulina Off-Broadway The Seagull 1983
Shamraev Off-Broadway The Seagull 1983
Sorin Off-Broadway The Seagull 1983
Sorin/Dorn/Shamraev Off-Broadway The Seagull 1983
Treplev Off-Broadway The Seagull 1983
Trigorin Off-Broadway The Seagull 1983
Yakov Off-Broadway The Seagull 1983

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