Tennessee Williams freely adapts Anton Chekhovs Russian classic The Seagull From the master twentiethcentury playwright Tennessee Williamsan adaptation of Chekhovs The Sea Gull never before available to the general trade The Notebook of Trigorin is faithful to Chekhovs story of longing and unrequited love Set on a provincial Russian Estate its peaceful environs offer stark contrast to the turbulent lives of its characters Constantine a young writer must compete for the attention of his mother a selfobsessed often comical aging actress Madame Arkadina and his romantic ideal Nina His rival for both women is Trigorin an established author bound to Arkadina by her patronage of his work and attracted to Nina by her beauty Trigorin cannot keep himself from consuming everything of value in Constantines life Only in the final scenes do all discover that the price for love and fragility can be horribly high But if the words in The Notebook of Trigorin are essentially Chekhovs the voice belongs firmly to Tennessee Williams The dialogue resonates with echoes of the themes Williams developed as his signaturescompassion for the artistic soul and its vulnerability in the face of the worlds successfully practiced duplicity Act I

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