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The Seagull review

“Clever and engaging, yet faintly smug”
ReviewsMar 7, 202500:06 by Sam MarloweBarbican Theatre, London
Zachary Hart as Medvedenko and Cate Blanchett as Arkádina in The Seagull at Barbican Theatre, London. Photo: Marc Brenner
Zachary Hart as Medvedenko and Cate Blanchett as Arkádina in The Seagull at Barbican Theatre, London. Photo: Marc Brenner
Cate Blanchett is incandescent in Thomas Ostermeier and Duncan Macmillan’s relentlessly meta adaptation of Chekhov’s The Seagull at London’s Barbican

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