There’s a yawning sense of ennui to designer Tim Shorthall’s country house set. Instead, she overplays her hand by being too obviously gauche. Friday January 24 2020. Bits of Johnson’s modernised language sometime jar, but – cribbing from one of Uncle Vanya’s key lines – this nicely judged production manages to be painful as well as funny. Time Out is a registered trademark of Time Out Digital Limited. Her distress as the various men around her swoon, professing their undying passion for her without really ever seeing her, is a fractured thing. But these are unusual times, so please check that events are still happening. Thanks for subscribing! Cox is great at teasing out the slide into bathos in every one of Vanya’s handwringing speeches. Déjà vu! She’s often sharply funny and captures the chafe of Sonia’s position – the potential trampled on. Sadly, with his production of “Uncle Vanya,” despite felicities in the casting, lightning has not struck twice. Uncle Vanya review – Toby Jones triumphs in perfect Chekhov. Try another? Newly adapted and directed by Hampstead Theatre regular Terry Johnson in the venue's main space, it turns a highly wry eye on the constant laments of the men and is all the better for it. But these are unusual times, so please check that events are still happening. He deals in show, rather than tell. Sometimes, dare I say it, Rickson’s extreme exquisiteness can lead to slightly dull productions. They’ve read too much poetry. But as Chekhov via Johnson brings out, this is invariably swamped by the overflow of their egotism. Maybe it’s the chill touch of my own encroaching middle years talking, but I found McPherson’s take the most relatable I’ve seen. All rights reserved. Director Ian Rickson has had success with Chekhov in the past. Bruno Poet doesn’t so much light Rae Smith’s wonderfully suggestive, wood-toned, high-vaulted indoor-outdoor set — part conservatory, part-study — as ignite it. 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McPherson’s most interventionist work in his otherwise stripped-back text is the adding of monologues in which characters face front and tell us their thoughts and feelings. Thanks for subscribing! He makes his grumpy sniping highly amusing. Along with strong direction from Ian Rickson, the play moves at a good pace even while remaining quite a long production. While inheritance laws mean that his deceased sister’s husband holds the family purse strings, he’s also trapped by self-importance. His exquisitely balanced, tragicomic production of “The Seagull” (2007 in London, 2008 on Broadway) was well-nigh flawless with, among others, Kristin Scott Thomas as painfully vulnerable as she was startlingly funny. Chekhov’s fascination with a degraded, wasteful aristocracy is all around. At first his sadsack estate administrator comes across as a faintly unbearable pub-bore type, and yet he won me over: he’s decent, witty and has a painfully, often humorously clear view of himself – well aware that he’s far less attractive than his lifelong friend Doctor Astrov. And, yes, Armitage is convincing as a warmly needy, 19th-century provincial doctor who's all … At the risk of being labelled a purist, it is also bizarrely un-Chekhovian. Harold Pinter theatre, London Ian Rickson’s exquisite production is enlivened with … The rest of the cast winningly create the sense of a longstanding household, but until his pain-filled climactic kiss with Yelena, Armitage is too generalized a love interest as Astrov, while the oddly young Aimee Lou Wood is miscast as Sonia. We already have this email. Jones is note-perfect: sad but also genuinely hilarious. But it’s also a tender tribute to the small joy that remains – and on the occasions when the sparks fly, it’s even exhilarating. Rickson’s productions are never knowingly unexquisite, and his ‘Vanya’ is beautifully lit by Bruno Poet, shafts of late summer sun drifting in through the windows of Rae Smith’s evocative set, which presents Serebryakov’s house in subtly abstract fashion, overwhelmed on the one side by a spreading thicket of weeds.
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