California Seagull

Alison Carey’s adaptation of Chekhov’s The Seagull received rave reviews and earned multiple Los Angeles Critics Choice Awards, as Carey brilliantly captures the comedy/pathos of Chekhov's characters in a contemporary setting. Like Chekhov’s original text, Carey’s play questions the nature and purpose of art, and Carey’s characters cannot escape their obsessions—particularly those related to the endless cycles of unrequited love. Chekhov’s perceptions and sense of humor about nineteenth-century Russian life seamlessly transfer to 2008 Southern California.