Month: July 2014

Uncle Vanya

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Stagecraft Theatre’s adaptation of  Anton Chekhov’s Uncle Vanya is set in a tea estate in a remote mountain district in India’s North East. The play portrays the visit of an elderly professor and his glamorous, much younger second wife, Helen to the rural tea estate that supports their urban city lifestyle. Two friends, Ivan (Uncle …

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Uncle Vanya

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Uncle Vanya, first published in 1897, is Anton Chekhov’s masterpiece on the frustrated longings and quiet trials of what may be called ordinary, “wasted” lives.  Though it is over a hundred years old, Uncle Vanya probes the central questions of human nature proving that these are timeless and universal and that Chekhov’s understanding of them …

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