Uncle Vanya

Synopsis: Uncle Vanya is credited as one of Chekhov's masterpieces and a significant precursor of modern drama. Set on a country estate in late nineteenth century Russia, Uncle Vanya is in part a study of the enervation of Russian middle-class provincial life. The major dynamics between the characters themselves are centered on two obsessive love affairs that lead nowhere and a flirtation that brings disaster. Mixing the tragic and the absurd and dealing with a form that allows for ambiguity and contradiction, Uncle Vanya has been deemed "the first modernist play". (David Lan) "It is the element of might-have-been in Chekhov's characters that makes their sense of waste so tragic ...I know of no more moving climax in world drama."

Cast

Marina	Amy Bruner
Mikhail Lvovich Astroff	Fred Baldwin
Ivan Petrovich Voinitsky, Uncle Vanya	Hunt Scarritt
Alexander Vladimirovitch Serebriakoff	Owen Ireland
Sofia Alexandrovna, Sonia	Joshilyn Jackson
Yelena Andreevna	Patricia Simmons
Ilya Ilyich Telegin	Clayton Fountain
Maria Vasilievna Voinitskaya	Diane Paules
Efim	John Jackson

 

Production Staff

Director	Yolanda Reed
Scene & Lighting Designer	Peter B. Young
Costume Designer	Stephanie Mathis
Technical Director	David Maysonet
Assistant Director	Carol Lege
Stage Manager	Scarlett Bowen
Master Carpenter	Marc Petersen
Properties	Evelyn Grosse
Light Board Operator	Mark Magee
Sound Operator	George Penton
Set Crew	Rick Malkoskie
	Stacy Reeves
House Managers	Judy DeBolt
	Connie Synco
Tickets	Pat Smith
Poster Design	Nancy Brown