Uncle Vanya (Baker)
by Annie Baker, Anton Chekhov, Margarita Shalina

Name: Uncle Vanya (Baker)
Brand: Annie Baker
SKU: 9780573701566
Rating: 3.86 (38 reviews)

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Highlights

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120 mins Present Day Ensemble Cast Interior Set Contemporary Costumes/Street Clothes Comedy

Awards & Recognition

Drama Desk Award

Winner! 2013 Drama Desk Award, Outstanding Revival of a Play Nominee: 2013 Off Broadway Alliance Award, Best Play Revival Top 10 in 2012: Charles Isherwood, The New York Times Top 10 in 2012: Scott Brown, New York Magazine

Synopsis

This intimate, immersive new adaptation of Chekhov’s classic from Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Annie Baker – author of Body Awareness , Circle Mirror Transformation , and The 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,” Annie Baker’s Uncle Vanya introduces twenty-first century audiences to Chekhov’s enduring wit, insight, and emotional depth.

Press Reviews

"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

"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

Characters

Character	Gender	Age	Description
SEREBRYAKOV, ALEXANDER VLADIMIROVICH A retired professor.	—	—	A retired professor.
YELENA ANDREYEVNA His wife, 27 years old.	female	—	His wife, 27 years old.
SOPHIA ALEXANDROVNA (SONYA) His daughter from his first marriage.	female	—	His daughter from his first marriage.
VOINITSKAYA, MARIA VASILYEVNA Widow of a Privy Councillor, mother of the professor’s first wife.	female	—	Widow of a Privy Councillor, mother of the professor’s first wife.
VOINITSKY, IVAN PETROVICH (VANYA) Her son.	male	—	Her son.
ASTROV, MIKHAIL LVOVICH A doctor.	—	—	A doctor.
TELEGIN, ILYA ILYICH An impoverished landowner.	—	—	An impoverished landowner.
MARINA An old nanny.	—	—	An old nanny.
YEFIM Hired Man/Night Watchman.	male	—	Hired Man/Night Watchman.