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Uncle Vanya is unique among Chekhov's major plays because it is essentially an extensive reworking of The Wood Demon, a play he published a decade earlier. [1] By elucidating the specific changes Chekhov made during the revision process—these include reducing the cast from almost two dozen down to nine, changing the climactic suicide of The Wood Demon into the famous failed homicide of Uncle ...
[12] The characters Vanya, Sonia and Masha are middle-aged siblings named after Chekhov characters. [13] Their deceased parents were "college professors who dabbled in community theater". [39] The character names are borrowed from Chekhov plays. [40] Vanya is the protagonist in Uncle Vanya and Sonia is his niece.
Vanya on 42nd Street is a 1994 American comedy-drama film directed by Louis Malle, written by Andre Gregory, and starring Wallace Shawn and Julianne Moore. The film is an intimate, interpretive performance of the 1899 play Uncle Vanya by Anton Chekhov as adapted by David Mamet .
Director Lila Neugebauer sets Lincoln Center Theater’s starry, breathtaking new Broadway production of Anton Chekhov’s “Uncle Vanya” in current-day America rather than Russia around 1898 ...
The Wood Demon (Леший, 1889)—a comedy in four acts; eight years after the play was published Chekhov returned to the work and extensively revised it into Uncle Vanya (see below) The Seagull (Чайка, 1896)—a comedy in four acts; Uncle Vanya (Дядя Ваня, 1897)—scenes from country life in four acts; based on The Wood Demon
Sonya's Story [1] is an opera by the British composer Neal Thornton to a libretto based on the original Russian text of Anton Chekhov's 1899 play Uncle Vanya.The libretto reproduces passages from Uncle Vanya in English translation with additional spoken text by Neal Thornton.
Uncle Vanya is a play by Anton Chekhov. Uncle Vanya may also refer to: Uncle Vanya, directed by John Goetz and Franchot Tone; Uncle Vanya, directed by Stuart Burge; Uncle Vanya, directed by Andrei Konchalovsky; Uncle Vanya, directed by Antonio Salines; Uncle Vanya, directed by Gregory Mosher
She played Arkadina in The Seagull (1898), played Elena in the Moscow premiere of Uncle Vanya (1899), and was the first to play Masha in Three Sisters (1901) and Madame Ranevskaya in The Cherry Orchard (1904). She married Anton Chekhov, the author of these plays, in 1901.