● THE SEAGULL FLIES AGAIN, this time, revived, mainly with the same Game of Thrones-led cast at London’s Harold Pinter theatre as it opened with briefly before the pandemic cut short its flight.
The famous cast of Westeros includes Indira Varma as Irina Arkadina and Tom Rhys Harries as her evasive lover, Trigorin.
Broadly, there are two routes for staging Chekhov’s fine play about frailty, boredom and the drag of leisured or empty existence. The first is to indulge the lavish sweep of the “idiocy of rural life” in late-Tsarist Russia (one
