The Seagull
- Sam Wanamaker Playhouse
- 4.9/5 based on 7 reviews
- Booking details
- Booking from: Sunday, 17 January 2027 Booking until: Tuesday, 27 April 2027
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The Seagull description
The Seagull makes its Shakespeare's Globe debut in the candlelit Sam Wanamaker Playhouse — and its subject matter could hardly be more suited to the setting. Chekhov's great play about the impossibility of getting what you want unfolds over a long summer at a Russian lakeside estate, where writers write plays nobody wants to stage, actors love people who don't love them back, and happiness always seems to be happening somewhere else. Chekhov called it a comedy. Its characters might disagree.
At the helm is Caroline Steinbeis, former Associate Director at Sheffield Theatres and a winner of the JMK Award for Outstanding Directors, whose previous credits include The Crucible at Manchester Royal Exchange, Rutherford and Son at Sheffield Theatres and The Broken Heart at the Globe Theatre. The translation is by Rory Mullarkey, winner of the James Tait Black Prize for Drama, author of Saint George and the Dragon and translator of The Cherry Orchard for Bristol Old Vic and Manchester Royal Exchange. This is a partnership that already produced one Globe triumph — and everything points to another.
