Uncle Vanya (2012)
Opening Night: June 7, 2012
Closing: August 26, 2012
Theater: Soho Repertory
Playwright Annie Baker and director Sam Gold team up again to stage an intimate and immersive adaptation of Chekhov’s masterpiece. Starring Reed Birney as Vanya.
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June 17, 2012
Experiencing a little discomfort is probably an appropriate way to immerse yourself in the world of Chekhov. It’s not the thunderclap of tragedy that plagues his characters, after all, but nagging, incurable heart cramps. The funky, fresh new production of “Uncle Vanya” that opened on Sunday night at Soho Rep brings this point home to the audience with unusual immediacy.
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June 18, 2012
The sense of living on top of another, with no room for escape, has always been central to Anton Chekhov’s masterpiece Uncle Vanya, but it’s never been as brilliantly conveyed as in Sam Gold’s highly affecting production of this seminal work, now at Soho Rep. Credit here is due not just to Gold, but also set designer Andrew Lieberman, who has placed the audience firmly inside the Russian country dacha — by building a low-ceilinged wood roof, which tops a smallish playing area (outfitted in thrift shop-looking furniture), while viewers sit all around on cushioned, carpeted risers
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June 17, 2012
Remember those high school basement parties where you and some friends would lie around on the carpet floor and drink your parents’ booze? Soho Rep’s unusually intimate production of Chekhov’s tragicomedy "Uncle Vanya" is rather like being invited to such a party, but one that is populated by very unhappy adults.
READ THE REVIEWJune 17, 2012
You’ll never be as close to a production of Uncle Vanya as you will to director Sam Gold’s welcome-to-the-country-house staging at Off Broadway’s Soho Rep (through July 22). In fact, you may never be that close to any theatrical production. Most of the audience is arranged — not very comfortably (ladies, don’t wear skirts) — on carpeted risers within mere feet, sometimes inches, of the actors, the furnishings, and the electrical outlets.
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June 17, 2012
You’ll never be as close to a production of Uncle Vanya as you will to director Sam Gold’s welcome-to-the-country-house staging at Off Broadway’s Soho Rep (through July 22). In fact, you may never be that close to any theatrical production. Most of the audience is arranged — not very comfortably (ladies, don’t wear skirts) — on carpeted risers within mere feet, sometimes inches, of the actors, the furnishings, and the electrical outlets.
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