Act I contains a play-within-a-play, during which there is the stage effect of two red eyes appearing, and the smell of sulfur.
When one character in this play tells another that his works contain no "living characters", he responds that artists should portray life not as it its, but as it appears in dreams. Act I contains a play-within-a-play, during which there is the stage effect of two red eyes appearing, and the smell of sulfur. One character suggests that his life could be made into a short story called "The Man Who Wished". Two years elapse between the third and fourth acts, during which time one character has married the schoolteacher Medvedenko, though she still loves the protagonist.  That protagonist, Pyotr Sorin, is the brother of a retired actress, Irina Arkadina, who admits that she hasn't read any of her son's fiction. For 10 points, Nina has an affair with Trigorin and the title animal is shot by Treplev in what play by Anton Chekhov?
When one character in this play tells another that his works contain no "living characters", he responds that artists should portray life not as it its, but as it appears in dreams.
The {Seagull} or {Chayka}