ABSTRACT
Having cast aside all superstitions, the Washington Square Players announced that Anton Chekhov's ‘The Seagull’, which they presented last night for the first time here at the Bandbox Theatre in an English version, translated from the Russian by Miss Marian Fell, will be played just thirteen times. Another superstition of the stage, that a tense, gripping, tragic drama of real literary value frightens away rather than attracts audiences, was likewise disregarded. All in all, a drama of such intense pessimism as ‘The Seagull’ is a rarity in these days when musical comedy fills the majority of theatres.
