The Seagull (,
Chayka) is a
play by Russian dramatist
Anton Chekhov, written in 1895 and first produced in 1896.
The Seagull is generally considered to be the first of his four major plays. It dramatises the romantic and artistic conflicts between four characters: the famous
middlebrow story writer Boris Trigorin, the ingenue Nina, the fading actress Irina Arkadina, and her son the
symbolist playwright Konstantin Tréplev.