For 'Seagull,' director dove into translation

Jokes in translation are never as funny. "It's a cultural thing," says Diego Arciniegas, who wrote a new translation of Russian playwright Anton Chekhov's darkly comic "The Seagull" for the production he's directing at the Publick Theatre, now in previews. (Full article: 827 words)

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