The Seagull young choreographer and Trigorin as an older, more conventional choreographer. An earlier ballet in two acts, by Russian composer Rodion Shchedrin, was first performed at the Bolshoi Theatre, Moscow in 1980. The 2003 film "La petite Lili" from director Claude Miller, starring Ludivine Sagnier as Nina renamed Lili, updates Chekhov's play to contemporary France in the world of the cinema. In 2004, American playwright Regina Taylor's African-American adaptation, "Drowning Crow", was performed on Broadway. Emily Mann wrote and directed an adaptation called "A Seagull in the Hamptons". The play premiered at the McCarter Theatre May 2008. Libby Appel did a
Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike to the Oscars. As they prepare for the party, Masha tells them she intends to sell the house, leaving Vanya and Sonia devastated. Things come to a head the day after the party. As Cassandra uses a voodoo doll on Masha, trying to dissuade thoughts of selling the house, Sonia receives a phone call from a man she met at the party, requesting a date. Hesitantly, she accepts. Vanya, who is secretly writing a play inspired by Konstantin's imagined symbolist drama in "The Seagull", is convinced by Nina to let her read it in front of the others. During the