Uncle Victor
by Rosary Hartel O'neill, Anton Chekhov

Name: Uncle Victor
Brand: Rosary Hartel O'neill
SKU: 9780573697616

Uncle Victor Book Cover — Uncle Victor Cover

Highlights

Small Cast

Female

Male

90 mins 19th Century Strong Role for Leading Man (Star Vehicle) Interior Set Period Costumes American Adaptation Historical Comedy

Synopsis

Full Length Historical Comedy Characters: 3 male 4 female

Interior

Uncle Victor is a historical comedy inspired by the classic Russian play Uncle Vanya by Anton Chekhov.

In this version O'Neill takes the structure of Uncle Vanya and some characters and places them on Waverly Plantation in 1899 Louisiana.

While the dialogue and characters are typically Southern the Louisiana story perfectly parallels the situation of turn-of-the century Russia where a new urban economy was destroying the country's agrarian base.

While Russians were suffering from typhoid and peasants were going hungry Southerners were dying from yellow fever and displaced farmers were starving.

In Uncle Victor the Mallory family running Waverly Sugar Plantation confronts a totally changed Louisiana.

Also available in Ghosts of New Orleans

Press Reviews

"O'Neill followed the original closely but not slavishly, and the resulting hybrid was a graceful and poignant evening of theater."
— Dalt Wonk, Proscenium

Characters

Character	Gender	Age	Description
Ellen Barnes Trowell 27; his wife.	female	—	27; his wife.
Sophie Mallory Trowell his daughter by his first wife.	female	—	his daughter by his first wife.
Louise Mallory (Mamere) mother of the professor’s first wife.	female	—	mother of the professor’s first wife.
Victor her son.	female	—	her son.
David August Greenan a doctor.	—	—	a doctor.
Marie Gaudet an old nurse.	—	—	an old nurse.
Randolph Trowell (Dolph) a retired professor.	—	—	a retired professor.