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A curiously uncertain production.
It's hard to believe Steven Pimlott's production is by the director of the Minerva's Nathan the Wise. Having brought an unknown German classic to blazing light, he - with several of the same cast members - turns The Seagull half-way to a turkey. What is vivid in the Minerva here becomes over-wrought.
Everyone seems affected by living in a famous actress's household. Steven Beard's steward pets like someone struck down with artistic temperament, never suggesting someone who's ever tended a horse. And while there's force in Kay Curram's Masha, her physical manner and voice suggest someone far too modern.