A Feather in Chekhov's Cap
✮✮✮✮ Chekhov's The Seagull Lyric Hammersmith | London directed by Simon Stephens In Sean Holmes’ production of The Seagull the audience are cleverly cast in a vital if silent role: that of the play’s omnipresent lake. We become the backdrop of Konstantin’s experimental play, the place where the titular seagull is shot, the shore along which Nina eventually stumbles back to the scene of her downfall. We are confidants, somewhere for the characters to throw out wry asides, inne
