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
Uncle Vanya using the proceeds to invest in interest-bearing paper which will bring in a significantly higher income (and, he hopes, leave enough over to buy a villa for himself and Yelena in Finland). Angrily, Vanya asks where he, Sonya, and his mother would live. He protests that the estate rightly belongs to Sonya, and that Serebryakov has never appreciated his self-sacrifice in managing the property. As Vanya’s anger mounts, he begins to rage against the professor, blaming him for the failure of his life, wildly claiming that, without Serebryakov to hold him back, he could have been a second Schopenhauer or