Kristin Scott Thomas to make Broadway debut
Story by Jack Foley
KRISTIN Scott Thomas (The English Patient) will make her long-awaited Broadway debut this fall, in a stunning production of Chekhov’s masterpiece, The Seagull, from September 23 to December 21, 2008.
A melancholy comedy set among the high society of late 19th-century Russia, The Seagull finds Thomas portraying Arkadina, a volatile, extravagant actress and mother of Konstantin (Mackenzie Crook, BBC’s The Office), a young man struggling to define himself as a writer.
Her arrival to the family’s country home, along with that of her lover (acclaimed film actor Peter Sarsgaard) creates a host of long-lasting romantic and artistic conflicts.
Direct from a sold-out run at London’s Royal Court Theatre, where it broke box office records and became the must-see event of the season, The Seagull will be on Broadway for a strictly limited 14-week engagement.
The New Yorker calls it, “The finest British production of Chekhov in recent memory”.
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