Uncle Vanya
by Anton Chekhov
Translated by Adam Cook

State Theatre Company
Dunstan Playhouse
Until November 4.

Reviewed by Murray Bramwell

Anton Chekhov has often bewildered his associates in the theatre. He used the term comedy to describe The Seagull, a play which ends in suicide, The Cherry Orchard was similarly designated but audiences saw only melancholy and pessimism for the future. Uncle Vanya, developed from an earlier version entitled The Wood Demon, he described as “Scenes from Country Life” …

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