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Article: OBSCURE `THE NOTEBOOK OF TRIGORIN' BY TENNESSEE WILLIAMS OPENS ACT SEASON.(What's Happening)
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- Seattle Post-Intelligencer
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- April 25, 1997
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When asked which three writers influenced him most, Tennessee Williams is reputed to have answered, ``Chekhov, Chekhov and Chekhov.''
The Pulitzer Prize-winning Williams regarded the Russian dramatist's play ``The Seagull'' as the ``first and greatest of all modern plays.''
Near the end of his life, Williams undertook an adaptation of ``The Seagull.'' Calling it ``The Notebook of Trigorin,'' Williams released the Chekhovian characters from their native restraint and delicate balance. In doing so, he placed his own indelible stamp upon the play.
The play, which had a brief run in Vancouver, B.C., in 1981, had been kept under wraps by the ...