Analysis of information sources in references of the Wikipedia article "The Seagull" in English language version.
In the play's opening moments, Masha (the beautiful Marjan Neshat) walks onstage with a lovelorn Medvedenko (Greg Keller) in tow; he asks her, "Why do you always wear black?," and she replies, "Because I'm in mourning for my life." Chekhov suggests that we spend far more time killing life than living it. And the various ways in which we murder our own happiness—through self-absorption, or by rejecting pure-hearted offers of love because we're taken in by glamour—constitute the majority of the play's action. Among other things, "The Seagull" is a spectacle of waste.
