the shadow of your shadow

Do me a favor. At least once in your lives, just for the fun of it, say something witty, something brilliant, something shocking or vulgar, anything, as long as it makes someone laugh! Be different! I don’t care what it is—just something intense, something alive, so we young women can look at you at least once in our lives and say “Yes!” If you want us to like you, why don’t you try to be likable? Oh gentlemen, you’re doing it all wrong! Wrong! Wrong!

A young girl grows up - beside a lake; she loves the lake like a seagull and she’s happy and free, as a seagull. But one day, by chance a man comes, and sees her, and having nothing better to do, destroys her, like this seagull here.

From Sam Mendes at the Donmar: Stepping into Freedom by Matt Wolf. (See More)

dominicb003:

Anton Chekhov reading The Seagull to the company of the Moscow Art Theatre in 1899.

tzarevitch:

Margarita G. Savitskaya and V. Baranovskaya in ‘Three Sisters’ (1901)