Added to the above answer, there are some more incidents.
Superlatively, Trepliov's first suicide attempt is not shown onstage, but only reported
by a minor character, Masha. In act lll he's shown with a bandage on his head, but it is
Masha who unwails the off-stage incident in the very beginning of act
lll.
If he had
wounded himself badly, I wouldn't have lived another minute. But I've got courage all
the same.
There is
an interval of two years within act lll and act iv. Act lll ends with Trigorin's and
Nina's plan to meet in Moscow. Notably in act iv Nina's life has been totally changed.
Now she has become a fallen woman by act iv and her crucial life incidents have been
hidden among Chekhov's subtext. The revelation of these important incidents of her life
is done by Trepliov.
She had a child. It died. Tigorin fell out of
love with her and went back to his former attachments, as might have been expected. In
fact he never gave them up, but in his spineless way he somehow managed to keep them all
going. As far as I can make it out from what I've heard, Nina's personal life turnrd out
a complete failure.
Masha's
life too is revealed this way. She has a child but we are not shown her in pregnancy or
anything regarding that. Only Medviedenko's request to her announces it to the
audience.
Medviedenko: [Imploringly] Masha, do let us go!
The baby may be hungry.
The
fact that Trepliov has become a successful writer is also revealed by Trigorin. That
process or him getting admirations is not made explicit
onstage.
Your
admirers send their greetings to you.... People in Petersburg and Moscow are vry
intrigued by you always asking me what you are like, how old and whether you're fair or
dark.
So, these incidents too
happen off-stage.
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