I missed her when I did not see her for a long time, and my imagination pictured no one at that time so eagerly as that young, beautiful, elegant woman. I was not in love with her, but I was attracted by her face, her eyes, her voice, her walk. The fact is that I was extremely attracted by his wife, Marya Sergeyevna. In his affection for me there was something inappropriate, tiresome, and I should have greatly preferred commonplace friendly relations. He was an intelligent, kind-hearted, genuine man, and not a bore, but I remember that when he confided to me his most treasured secrets and spoke of our relation to each other as friendship, it disturbed me unpleasantly, and I was conscious of awkwardness. I suppose I was fond of him on his own account, though I can't say that for certain, as I have not up to now succeeded in analysing my feelings at that time. I liked his house, and his park, and his big fruit garden, and the river - and his philosophy, which was clear, though rather spiritless and rhetorical. I liked to be with him, and I used to stay on his farm for two or three days at a time. When sunburnt, grey with dust, exhausted with toil, he met me near the gates or at the entrance, and then at supper struggled with sleepiness and his wife took him off to bed as though he were a baby or when, overcoming his sleepiness, he began in his soft, cordial, almost imploring voice, to talk about his really excellent ideas, I saw him not as a farmer nor an agriculturist, but only as a worried and exhausted man, and it was clear to me that he did not really care for farming, but that all he wanted was for the day to be over and 'Thank God for it.' His farming was fairly successful, and yet it always seemed to me that he was not in his proper place, and that he would do well to go back to Petersburg. For more information, visit the website, PETROVITCH SILIN had taken his degree and entered the government service in Petersburg, but at thirty he gave up his post and went in for agriculture. For tickets, call the Quick Center box office at (203) 254-4010 or toll free at 1-877-ARTS-396. Tickets are $7 for a single performance, $15 for all three. On Thursday, March 18, the Quick Center will present Ivan Turgenyev's 'Fortune's Fool,' followed by 'The Inspector General' by Nikolai Gogol on Thursday, April 15. 'The Seagull' is the first of three readings of Russian playwrights during the Quick Center's spring season. John O'Hern, of Westport, created the role of Fred McMullen in the off-Broadway play 'Out' and had a successful six-week off-Broadway run with his one-man show, 'A Rooster in the Henhouse.' He has appeared in regional theater as Scrooge in 'A Christmas Carol' and Jim in 'The Glass Menagerie.'īridgeport resident Miles Marek is the producing director of the Fairfield Theatre Company and has appeared in television's 'Law & Order,' 'The Equalizer,' 'All My Children' and 'Another World.' He was featured in Ang Lee's acclaimed film 'The Ice Storm' and is a familiar face in regional theater. Her credits include several movies-of-the-week, 250 television commercials and parts on daytime television's 'Loving' and 'Another World.' She has appeared locally at the Long Wharf Theatre, The Boston Post Road Stage Co., Stamford Theatre Works and the Westport Country Playhouse. His Broadway credits include 'The Sisters Rosenswieg' and 'On Golden Pond,' and he has appeared in the films 'Anima,' 'The Luckiest Man on Earth' and 'The Gig.' Television viewers may recognize him from his many appearances on 'Law & Order.'īethel resident Sarah Saltus has appeared on Broadway, under the direction of Dustin Hoffman and off-Broadway with the Circle Rep, American Place Theatre and the Phoenix Rep. Several accomplished actors will be reading 'The Seagull.' Stan Lachow, a New York City resident, has appeared on stage, film and television. 'Actors and directors time and again enjoy the luxury of revisiting Chekhov's people, like discovering lost friends.' 'If ÔThe Seagull' makes us look at unsettling questions in ourselves, we also find solace that we're not alone grappling for answers,' says Frank van Putten, of Redding Ridge, who will direct the Quick Center reading.

He gathers a group of friends and family at his country estate for the first performance and the results are both comic and tragic and always insightful. It centers on Konstantin, a young writer who hopes to shatter the staid world of the theater with something fresh and experimental. 'The Seagull' is quintessential Chekhov and his earliest success as a playwright. Professional actors will read the time-honored play in the intimate Wien Experimental Theatre. Quick Center for the Arts kicks off a series of live theater readings from great Russian playwrights with Anton Chekhov's 'The Seagull' on Thursday, Feb.

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