Uncle Vanya
From: Monday, 5th November 2012
To: Saturday, 10 November 2012
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Synopsis
Set on a crumbling country estate, Uncle Vanya is the tale of two obsessive love affairs that lead nowhere, and a flirtation that brings disaster. The irascible Vanya and his niece Sonya have managed the estate on behalf of their relative, a renowned Professor for the last twenty-five years. Now retired, the Professor and his beautiful young wife come to visit, throwing the household into disarray, igniting hidden passions and old grudges. Family ties are tested further when the ageing and gout-ridden Professor announces his plans to sell the estate and live off the proceeds in the city. By turns comic, tragic, romantic, and wistful, Chekhov's play is an unforgettable study of unfulfilled dreams and unrequited love. One of his four great masterpieces written on the eve of the twentieth century, it features a feast of subtle comic portraits of a family at logger heads with each other and the world around them, that still has resonance at the start of another new century.
Our Review:
Michael Coveney - 6 November 2012
Passion without sentimentality is the hallmark of this truly wonderful production from the Vakhtangov Theatre in Moscow, and while the Lindsay Posner version at the Vaudeville may look more like Chekhov, this one feels infinitely more authentic.
As Michael Pennington points out in a programme note, this is not the Chekhov of Stanislavski's meticulous realism, but of the Expressionist divergence taken up by Meyerhold and the man who founded this theatre in 1921, Evgeniy Vakhtangov.
It’s a theatre we know from the brilliant productions of Yuri Lyubimov's Taganka and Robert Sturua's Rustaveli, a theatre of tableaux, black cartoonish humour, mannequins and movement, strident soundtracks and dark nights of the soul.
Thus Rimas Tuminas' savagely decisive staging gives us the professor entering in procession of devoted reverie; Elena exotically toying with a hoop; and...
Latest User Review
Helena - 14 November 2012:
Being away, I missed the production , but really admired the review. It's rare to see a critical record of a piece of theatre encapsulating it so vividly that it is bound to stay in memory. ...
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Chekhov (Author)
Artsbridge Ltd ()
Oksana Nemchuk (Producer)
Vakhtangov Theatre (Company)
Rimas Tuminas (Adaptation)
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