Uncle Vanya (Baker, trans.)
- Full Length Play, Dramatic Comedy, Present Day
- 5M, 4F
- ISBN: 9780573701566
"You know, I used to think that being a creep meant you were sick or abnormal, but lately I've come to the conclusion that we're all creeps. Everyone in the world, behaving naturally, is a complete creep."
Description
- Full Length Play
- Dramatic Comedy
- 120 minutes
- Time Period: Present Day
- Target Audience: Teen (Age 14 - 18), Adult
- Cautions: Alcohol, Mild Adult Themes
- Performance Group:
- Community Theatre, High School/Secondary, Professional Theatre, Blackbox / Second Stage /Fringe Groups, College Theatre / Student
- Accolades:
- Winner! Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Revival of a Play (2013)
Nominee! Off Broadway Alliance Award for Best Play Revival (2013)
Top 10 in 2012! Charles Isherwood for The New York Times
Top 10 in 2012! Scott Brown for New York Magazine
Annie Baker's Uncle Vanya introduces twenty-first century audiences to Chekhov's enduring wit, insight, and emotional depth.
REVIEWS:
"This strikingly intimate Uncle Vanya is one of the summer's hot tickets."
The New York Times
"Wholly absorbing."
Time Out New York
"Devastatingly beautiful [...] Go see it. People are going to be talking about this one for years."
Village Voice
"Annie Baker's colloquial version of Chekhov's Uncle Vanya is more than a modern-dress treatment of a classic work. It's a fresh rethinking of the material from the perspective of a modern mind."
Variety
"The most intimate and engaging exploration of Chekhov's bleak comedy since Andre Gregory's Vanya on 42nd Street more than 20 years ago."
Bloomberg News
"A soul-satisfying Uncle Vanya."
Philly Inquirer
"Baker's strikingly colloquial (yet remarkably faithful) translation [...] eliminates any distance we might feel from these universal characters first created over 100 years ago, but recognizable to -- and in -- each one of us."
TheaterMania
"Chekhov's 1898 masterpiece [...] as low-frills, intimate and homemade as possible."
The New York Times
"Top 10 things on the New York stage."
New York Daily News
"Baker practices [...] astonishing verbal magic."
The Paris Review
Characters
- Casting: 5M, 4F
- Casting Attributes: Parts for Senior Actors, Ensemble cast, Non-Traditional casting
YELENA ANDREYEVNA - the professor's wife, twenty-seven years old
MARINA - an old nanny
SEREBRYAKOV - Alexander Vladimirovich, a retired professor
TELEGIN - Ilya Ilyich, an impoverished landowner
VOINITSKAYA - Maria Vasilyevna, widow of a privy councillor, mother of the professor's first wife
ASTROV - Mikhail Lvovich, a doctor
YEFIM - (Hired Man/Night Watchman)
SOPHIA ALEXANDROVNA - (Sonya), the professor's daughter from his first marriage.
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This intimate, immersive new adaptation of Chekhov's classic from Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Annie Baker -- author of Body Awareness, Circle Mirror Transformation, and Th Flick -- brings colloquial language to this internationally beloved story of human relationships and yearning. Written with the "goal of creating a version that sounds to our contemporary American ears the way the play sounded to Russian ears during the play's first productions in the provinces in 1898." |
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