The Seagull, a play by Chekhov, a Royal Shakespeare Company production.It was the first time I watched a play by Chekhov. I liked so much that I bought the book and read other plays by him.
The production was great, basically just the essential actors on stage. This is the kind of play that I most like, more than huge and expensive productions.
The cast was amazing! It was staring Ian Mckellen. The whole cast was so amazing that Ian Mckellen, even being a great actor wasn't the focus.
About the story, what I most like is the parts that the writer in the play is speaking about creativity, its anxiety, isolation and sufferings:
"I am held day and night by one obsessive thought: I must write, I must write, I must... I've no sooner finished a story than I'm already driven by something to write another, then a third, after that a forth... (...) What, I ask you, is there here that is splendid or bright? Oh, what an absurd life! (...) I have no rest from myself, and I feel that I'm devouring my own life." (Trigorin's dialog, p. 108)
That makes me think how creative professionals have to give up their own life in order to be able to create. Makes me think the relationship between creativity and isolation.
