The teacher loves the housekeeper's daughter, who loves the young artist, who loves the girl next door, who loves the famous writer, who is the lover of the great actress - who had an affair with the doctor, who the housekeeper still loves after all these years. 

In the first of his great masterpieces Chekhov sets this parade of unrequited love on a summer estate where, with a meticulous eye and unsentimental clarity, he exposes the ridiculousness of our longing. Here, the young clash with the old, the artists with the civil servants and the traditional with the shock of the new. Chekhov's works remain deeply relevant, radically contemporary and exquisitely funny. 

This exciting new version reimagines the radical young artist as a woman, instantly bringing us into the here and now. The Seagull is a wonderful celebration of love and art - a study of what we aspire to most, and how easily we keep happiness just out of reach.