gang archives & history

2001-2002

THE SEAGULL

By ANTON CHEKHOV
Translated by ROBERT BRUSTEIN

Directed By GEORGES BIGOT

The Seagull

(photo l to r) Lolly Ward, Keythe Farley, Brian Powell

CAST

Yakov, a worker MICHAEL SPELLMAN, MICHAEL LIPPMAN
Chambermaid JANE RUNNALLS
Simeon Simeonovich Medvedenko, a schoolmaster KEYTHE FARLEY*
Marya Ilyinichna (Masha), Polina and Shamrayev's daughter LOLLY WARD*
Constantine Gavrilovich Treplev, Arkadina's son JOSEPH GRIMM*
Pyotr Nikolayevich Sorin, Arkadina's brother STEVEN M. PORTER*
Nina Mickhailovna Zaretchnaya, daughter of a wealthy landowner MELANIE LORA
Polina Andreyevna, Shamrayev's wife CLARE WREN*
ADELE ROBBINS
Yevgeny Sergeyevich Dorn, a doctor BRIAN POWELL*
Ilya Afanasevich Shamrayev, manager of Sorin's estate V.J. FOSTER*
Irina Nikolayevna Arkadina, an actress CYNTHIA ETTINGER*
Boris Alexeyevich Trigorin, a writer BRENT HINKLEY*
Cook ADELE ROBBINS
JEFF BRANION

Understudies: For Masha, ANGELA BERLINER; for Arkadina, KATE MULLIGAN*; for Trigorin, KEYTHE FARLEY*; for Medvedenko, P. ADAM WALSH; for Sorin, BRIAN BROPHY

DESIGN TEAM

set design RICHARD HOOVER
lighting design DAVID F. HAHN
costume design ANN CLOSS-FARLEY
props CHUCK OLSEN
music HOAGIE K. HILL

CREW

stage manager JOANNA UNDERWOOD
Assistant Stage Manager RICH CROOKS
Technical Director DAVID MOORE
Light Board Operator ADAM CWIOK
Sound Board Operator JOSHUA ZELLER
Running Crew MICHAEL SPELLMAN, RICHARD CROOKS, MICHAEL LIPPMAN, ANDREW RIOS, COREY LOVETT, SANDRO MASTROBUONO, NANCY STONE
Assistant Costume Designers AMES INGHAM, ALICIA HODGE-ADAMS
Master Electrician JESSE KUNTZ, ADAM CWIOK
Electricians CARLOS CASTRO, ADAM CWICK, MUSTAFA JOHNSON
Scenery built by SETS TO GO
Painters PAM CARTMEL, KAREN STEWART

PRODUCTION STAFF

Producer PAUL S. ECKSTEIN
Executive Producer Tim Robbins
Managing Director GREG REINER
House Manager jAROD NESBIT
Box Office Manager BLAIRE CHANDLER

 

PRESS

THEATER REVIEW
Robust Actors' Gang Makes 'Seagull' Soar

Tim Robbins celebrates the 20th anniversary of his theatre, The Actors' Gang, with a repertory duo focusing on the actor's responsibility to society: Chekhov's The Seagull, directed by Georges Bigot, and Klaus Mann's Mephisto directed by Robbins.

 

 

 

 

 

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