«Winter Garden» Stage ANTON CHEKHOV. SEAGULL   Director – Iosif Raykhelgauz Set – Boris Lysikov Costumes – Viktoria Sevriukova
		Iosif Raikhelgauz approached Seagull as a newly written play and emphasized everything in it that links Chekhov’s text, characters and literary devices with today’s world. This is a play about our contemporaries – Russian people living in the beginning of the millennium.  Their objectives are lost, true feelings are substituted for vanity, and so they live, having neither time nor desire to ponder over their life…
		Actors: Irina Alferova, Albert Filozov, Vasily Bochkarev, Vladimir Kachan, Yury Chernov, Nina Shatskaya, Vladimir Shulga, Olga Gusiletova, Tatiana Tsirenina, Anzhelika Volchkova, Stepan Rozhnov, Aleksei Gnilitsky, Pavel Drozdov, Kirill Emelyanov  Duration – 170 minutes ( one intermission) Premiere – October 24, 1998