No lines, no set, no costumes: how The Factory theatre group took Chekhov back to basics by Hermione Hoby

Their guerrilla Hamlet gained a cult following last year. Now The Factory group have brought their minimal, part-swapping approach to The SeagullIn the downstairs studio at London's Hampstead Theatre, minutes before 8pm, actors scurry around the room making last-minute preparations. As the sense of urgency threatens to tip into hysteria, there's also a feeling that everything could go horribly, anticlimactically wron…

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