Uncle Vanya Av Anton Chekhov

<p>Anton Chekhov''s play <i>Uncle Vanya</i> in a new version by Christopher Hampton. This version will be first staged at the Vaudeville Theatre, London, on 25 October 2012 and run until 16 February 2013.<br><br>''It''s often said that the best of the Chekhov plays is the one you''ve seen most recently. <i>Uncle Vanya</i> doesn''t have a suicide, like <i>The Seagull</i>, or an adulterous couple and a duel more or less indistinguishable from murder, like Three Sisters; nor does it seem to announce the end of an era, like <i>The Cherry Orchard</i>: all it has is a series of ludicrously bungled attempts at murder and suicide and adultery. Perhaps these failures are what makes it feel the saddest and most truthful of these great tragi-comedies, in which, possibly unique to all drama, not a single word seems redundant or out of place.'' <br>- From the author''s introduction.</p>