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Uncle Vanya: A New Version by Annie Baker Anton Chekhov
Publisher: Theatre Communications Group

Sheafer Theater, Bryan Center, West Campus November 14-16 & 21-23 at 8 pm. Annie Baker creates nothing short of a masterful adaptation that remains faithful to Chekhov's feat of melding a wholly conversational tone with almost preternatural eloquence. New performance carries the weight of a revelation. Show dates/times/prices: Uncle Vanya By Anton Chekhov Adaptation by Annie Baker Directed by Jeff Storer, Theater Studies faculty. Nov 18, 2012 - But this season his work is receiving a dramatic makeover in a coincidental series of adventurous new adaptations by luminaries of New York's contemporary performance avant-garde. Consequently, as of this moment I cannot even imagine a more gripping, important, and compelling performance than the new adaptation of Uncle Vanya at the ingenious Soho Rep. "Uncle Vanya" is playing at New York's City Center through July 28. But "Vanya"'s inactive plot continues to pose a tempting challenge to directors: do me differently. The sad implication here being: the prospect of closeness in either case is equally absurd. Treadwell was one of a handful of women . Jul 23, 2012 - Most memorable was Annie Baker and Sam Gold's intensely intimate Soho Rep staging, which captured the play's starkness brilliantly, and delivered a punch to the gut that this version did not. Apr 5, 2013 - There are lots of theatrical conventions that were new—montage of sound and scenery, archetypal characters—all pushing the envelope of expected realistic dramas. Apr 29, 2013 - Outstanding Play Annie Baker, The Flick Christopher Durang, Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike Joe Gilford, Finks Richard Greenberg, The Assembled Parties Amy Herzog, Belleville Deanna Jent, Falling Richard Nelson, Sorry Uncle Vanya. Outstanding Revival of a Musical or Revue Passion Pippin Rodgers + Hammerstein's Cinderella The Golden Land The Mystery of Edwin Drood Working: A Musical. Each artist Annie Baker's critically acclaimed Uncle Vanya at Soho Rep emphasizes the familiar lull of contemporary conversation while presenting period details with equally matter-of-fact familiarity, placing the entire audience inside a carpeted A-frame house built inside a theater.