Characters in the Play + 

Irina Nikolayevna Arkadin (Madame Treplev) (an actress) + 

Konstantin Gavrilovitch Treplev (her son, a young man) + 

Pyotr Nikolayevitch Sorin (her brother) + 

Nina Mihailovna Zaretchny (a young girl, the daughter of a wealthy landowner) + 

Ilya Afanasyevitch Shamraev (a retired lieutenant, Sorin’s steward) + 

Polina Andreyevna (his wife) + 

Masha (his daughter) + 

Boris Alexeyevitch Trigorin (a literary man) + 

Yevgeny Sergeyevitch Dorn (a doctor) + 

Semyon Semyonovitch Medvedenko (a schoolmaster) + 

Yakov (a labourer) + 

A Man Cook + 

A Housemaid + 

The action takes place in Sorin’s house and garden. Between the Third and the Fourth Acts there is an interval of two years. + 