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The Seagull review " a frenzied and feverish take on Chekhov by Michael Billington

Regent's Park Open Air theatre, LondonThe mood down on Peter Sorin's country estate is one of borderline hysteria in Torben Betts' violent version of the playwright's first great masterpiece.Gone, it seems, are the days when we played Chekhov with intense poetic naturalism. The current vogue is for something more frenzied, feverish and violent. Those are certainly the words that come to mind watching Matthew Dunster'…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:14AM on June 25, 2015

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