Uncle Vanya by Robert Icke

Uncle Vanya by Robert Icke

Chekhov's late masterpiece examines human behaviour in all of its beautiful, terrible, laughable contradiction.

It challenges the patriarchal assumptions of the playwright’s tragic trilogyIt dispenses with staging conventions. Yet this is not destruction but revelation. You can almost see the dust flying off the old master. No. 1 Play of 2015. * The Observer *
What a piece of theatre this is… Calchas says of the play: ‘‘this has all happened before, and more than once’’. But not with this theatrical potency, not in my lifetime, I don’t think.’ No. 1 Play of 2015. * Time Out *

Robert Icke is a writer and theatre director. He was the Artistic Director of the Arden Theatre Company from 2003-7 and of the Swan Theatre Company from 2005-8. From 2010-13 he was Associate Director at Headlong, where he worked on all of the company's productions and directed three of his own. He is currently Associate Director at the Almeida alongside Artistic Director Rupert Goold. 1984 won Best Director at the UK Theatre Awards 2014, Best Director at the Liverpool Arts Awards 2013, and was nominated for Best New Play at the 2014 Olivier Awards. In 2014, Robert was selected as one of the hospital club's 100 most influential and innovative people working across Britain's creative industries. His adaptation of Oresteia received universal critical acclaim when it premiered at the Almeida and transferred to the West End.

SKU	Unavailable
ISBN 13	9781783197293
ISBN 10	1783197293
Title	Uncle Vanya
Author	Robert Icke
Series	Oberon Modern Plays
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Year published	2016-02-05
Number of pages	96
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