Die Möwe by Anton Chekhov

At a country estate, a circle of actors, writers and relatives grapple with unrequited love, artistic ambition and rivalry: a young playwright’s experimental work is dismissed by his successful actress mother and by the celebrated novelist she admires, while a naive young actress longs for fame and becomes entangled with the novelist, setting off jealousy, humiliation and bitter self-reckoning that expose the characters’ thwarted dreams and culminate in personal tragedy.

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