Details

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 in this century.

Cast/Performers

Tom Courtenay (Uncle Vanya), Robert Glenister (Astrov), Helen Schlesinger (Yelena), John Bennett (Serebryakov), Kaye Wragg (Sonya), Janet Whiteside, Robert Hickson, Janet Whiteside, Robert Hickson, Ellen Sheean, James Nickerson

Creatives/Company

Author: Chekhov
Translation: Michael Frayn
Director: Gregory Hersov
Design: Rob Jones
Lighting: Hugh Vanstone
Sound: Steve Brown
Music: Bruce O'Neil