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Full-Length Play, Dramatic Comedy / 4w, 5m
By Anton ChekhovAdapted by Annie BakerWorking with a literal translation by Margarita Shalina and the original Russian text
Winner! 2013 Drama Desk Award, Outstanding Revival of a Play
Nominee: 2013 Off Broadway Alliance Award, Best Play Revival
“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.”
Top 10 in 2012: Charles Isherwood, The New York Times
Top 10 in 2012: Scott Brown, New York Magazine
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 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”, Ms. Baker's Uncle Vanya introduces 21st century audiences to Chekhov's enduring wit, insight, and emotional depth.
Annie Baker's translation of Uncle Vanya was first presented off-Broadway by Soho Rep Theatre on 16 June 2013. The production was directed by Sam Gold.
SEREBRYAKOV, ALEXANDER VLADIMIROVICH – A retired professor.
YELENA ANDREYEVNA – His wife, 27 years old.
SOPHIA ALEXANDROVNA (SONYA) – His daughter from his first marriage.
VOINITSKAYA, MARIA VASILYEVNA – Widow of a Privy Councillor, mother of the professor’s first wife.
VOINITSKY, IVAN PETROVICH (VANYA) – Her son.
ASTROV, MIKHAIL LVOVICH – A doctor.
TELEGIN, ILYA ILYICH – An impoverished landowner.
MARINA – An old nanny.
YEFIM – Hired Man/Night Watchman.
Serebryakov’s estate
“Devastatingly beautiful... 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
“This strikingly intimate Uncle Vanya is one of the summer’s hot tickets.” – The New York Times
“Wholly absorbing." – Time Out New York
“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
“Baker practices... astonishing verbal magic.” – The Paris Review
Anton Chekhov (1860–1904) was a Russian playwright and author. He is considered to be one of the greatest writers of short fiction in history. His career as a playwright produced four classics, and his best short stories are held in high esteem. Chekhov practiced as a medical ...