Times
'Frances Barber's Arkadina is a star performance'
Sunday Times
'Trevor Nunn has scored a direct hit with a Seagull suffused in romantic melancholia and darkened by middle-aged sexual scheming... Romola Garai's Nina is a revelation... The supporting performances reach superlative heights'
Evening Standard
'Nunn directs an unexpectedly rollicking production...Frances Barber sets the tone as a hilarious Arkadina...Again and again in this show - Nunn and his company combine wild laughter with bitter tears'
Daily Telegraph
'Barber is both a powerfully actressy and an obvious Arkadina. She's gorgeous, predatory, vain, and not afraid to show any of this'
Observer
'The production looks a picture with Christopher Oram's vista of misty lakes. It's a Seagull to enjoy'
Guardian
'Melanie Jessop's genuinely affecting Polina'
Daily Express
'Monica Dolan is an outstanding Masha'
Observer
'Richard Goulding's brooding Konstantin'
Sunday Times
'Jonathan Hyde as panama hatted Dr Dorn is the very essence of the provincial Don Juan'
Guardian
