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Who Played Trigorin in The Seagull

Trigorin is a role in The Seagull that opened Off-Broadway in 1975.

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.

7 actors have played Trigorin in The Seagull.

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Performer Production Opened
Paul Sparer Off-Broadway The Seagull 1962
Gerry Bamman Off-Broadway The Seagull 1975
Christopher Walken Off-Broadway The Seagull 1980
Judd Hirsch Off-Broadway The Seagull 1983
Kevin Kline Off-Broadway The Seagull 2001
Alan Cumming Off-Broadway The Seagull 2008
Tom Rhys Harries West End The Seagull 2020

Other Roles in The Seagull

Role Production Opened
Dorn Off-Broadway The Seagull 1975
Irina Off-Broadway The Seagull 1975
Kostya Off-Broadway The Seagull 1975
Masha Off-Broadway The Seagull 1975
Medvedenko Off-Broadway The Seagull 1975
Nina Off-Broadway The Seagull 1975
Paulina Off-Broadway The Seagull 1975
Petrusha Off-Broadway The Seagull 1975
Shamraev Off-Broadway The Seagull 1975
Trigorin Off-Broadway The Seagull 1975

“Trigorin” Also Appears In

Production Type Year
The Seagull Broadway 2008

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