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"Simply, plainly wonderful."--The Boston Globe

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.

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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

First produced by the Moscow Art Theater in 1899, Uncle Vanya is one of Chekhov's greatest plays and a staple of the theatrical repertoire. Both structurally and psychologically compact, it is among the most expressive of the Russian playwright's dramatic works. Set on an estate... 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

Sonia and her uncle, Vanya, have devoted their lives to managing the family farm in isolation, but when her celebrated, ailing father and his charismatic wife move in, their lives are upended. In the heat of the summer, the wrong people fall in love, desires and resentments erupt,... Read Full Overview

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

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

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

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

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

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. Ant n Ch jov. Rusia 1860 - 1904