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"Superior to any other Uncle Vanya I've read or seen... Baker practices astonishing verbal magic over and over again." - Clancy Martin, Paris Review

"Spectacular...This new Vanya has a conversational smoothness that removes the cobwebs sticking to those other translations that never let you forget that the play was written in 1897... One of the most exquisite renderings of Uncle Vanya I've encountered." --Charles McNulty,... Read Full Overview

Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright David Mamet's Uncle Vanya is a sparkling restoration of a masterpiece of the modern stage, marked by Mamet's finely tuned ear for dialogue and memorable poetic imagery.

The play portrays the visit of an elderly Professor and his glamorous, much younger second wife, Elena, to the rural estate that supports their urban lifestyle. Two friends, Vanya, brother of the Professor's late first wife, who has long managed the estate, and Astrov, the local... Read Full Overview

THE STORY: The scene is a country estate in the declining days of Czarist Russia, the home of an old and ailing professor, his young wife, and various other family members. For years the estate, under the management of Uncle Vanya, brother of the p

Along with Three Sisters and The Cherry Orchard, Uncle Vanya is credited as one of Chekhov's masterpieces and a significant precursor of modern drama. Set on a country estate in late nineteenth century Russia, Uncle Vanya is in part a study of the... Read Full Overview

Reviews from the world premiere of the new translation:

"The most affecting version that I have ever seen of this epochal comedy of discontent.... The first VANYA that brought me to tears and made me laugh in places I never had before."

Ben Brantley,... Read Full Overview

'Uncle Vanya' is a play by the Russian playwright Anton Chekhov. It was first published in 1897 and received its Moscow premi re in 1899 in a production by the Moscow Art Theatre, under the direction of Konstantin Stanislavski. The play portrays the visit of an elderly professor... Read Full Overview

Uncle Vanya is a play by the Russian playwright Anton Chekhov. It was first published in 1897 and received its Moscow premi re in 1899 in a production by the Moscow Art Theatre, under the direction of Konstantin Stanislavski. The play portrays the visit of an elderly professor... Read Full Overview

THE STORY: Two lives, Uncle Vanya and his niece Sonya, are at the core of this play. They work their small estate, live frugally and keep their emotions tightly reined in. Then they are visited by a relative, Professor Serebryakov, and his beautifu

T o Vania es un drama del escritor y dramaturgo ruso Ant n Ch jov publicada en 1899. Su primera gran presentaci n fue en 1900 bajo la direcci n de Konstant n Stanislavski. T o Vania es nica entre las obras capitales de Ch jov porque es esencialmente una extensa reconstrucci... Read Full Overview

Chekhov's late masterpiece examines human behaviour in all of its beautiful, terrible, laughable contradiction. Following his reimagining of Oresteia (Almeida / West End), Almeida Associate Director Robert Icke directs a new production of Chekhov's greatest play.

Dramatic Comedy / Characters: 5 male 4 female

Scenery: Interior/Exterior

This classic imparts an indelible picture of Chekhov's Russia and of his rich bittersweet and deeply human characters.

"Blessedly free both of Slavisms and of up-to-date colloquialisms." -New York... Read Full Overview

This intimate immersive new adaptation of Chekhov's classic from critically-acclaimed playwright Annie Baker author of Body Awareness Circle Mirror Transformation and The Flick brings colloquial language to this internationaly beloved story of human relationships... Read Full Overview

T o Vania. Ant n Ch jov. Rusia 1860 - 1904

Oncle Vania est une pi ce de th tre d'Anton Tchekhov de 1897 qui m lange le drame et le comique. Cette pi ce est inspir e de la pi ce Le Sauvage, galement d'Anton Tchekhov. La pi ce fut d'abord jou e dans des villes de province et ne fut cr e au Th tre d'art de Moscou que... Read Full Overview