I just watched the 2018 film of Chekhov's The Sea Gull, starring Annette Bening, which is one of my favorite plays. It needs to be seen on a big screen in a dark theatre. It wasn't bad, because Bening plays the awful woman wonderfully - conceited, narcissistic, cheap, stingy,, manipulative - and it's a hard part because a lot of actresses look for ways to make the audience like them. The only other names in the cast I recognized were Brian Dennehy as her dying brother, Elizabeth Moss as the bitter, alcoholic Masha, and Mare Winningham as her mother, Paulina, who's having an affair with the doctor played by Jon Tenney. I had forgotten how much frustrated love there is in the play.