“People don’t come to the theater to feel good,” Libby Appel says. “They come to feel.”As with all of Anton Chekhov’s plays, “The Seagull” has a lot of feelings: hope, ambition, failure, pain, persistence. Not a melodrama, it’s a masterpiece of subtle, indirect communication, much of it in subtext.Appel’s new English version of the play gets its professional world premiere, called “Seagull,” at Marin Theatre Co. this week in a production directed by Jasson Minadakis. Read More