Uncle Vanya
Paperback, 128 pages ISBN: 9781854594303Publication Date:
6 Aug 1999
Size: 160mm x 105mm£3.99 £3.19You save £0.80 (20%)
First Staged:
1899; this translation, English Touring Theatre, 2008

Uncle Vanya

By Anton Chekhov Translated by Stephen Mulrine

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Chekhov's great play about an elderly professor whose plans to sell off his rural estate threaten the livelihoods of those who have worked tirelessly to keep the estate going. Translated and introduced by Stephen Mulrine.

Vanya and his niece, Sonya, work relentlessly to keep their meagre estate going. Sonya finds relief in her undisclosed love for Astrov, the local doctor. But all hope of relief is banished when their lives are invaded by Sonya's selfishly destructive father and his beautiful new wife.

Anton Chekhov's play Uncle Vanya was first staged at the Moscow Arts Theatre in 1899.

This translation by Stephen Mulrine, published in the Nick Hern Books Drama Classics series, was first staged by English Touring Theatre at Rose Theatre, Kingston, in 2008, in a production directed by Peter Hall.

This version of Uncle Vanya is also available in the collection Chekhov: Four Plays.

Set Text >> Uncle Vanya is a set text for SQA English and Communications Advanced Higher.

Press Quotes

'Stephen Mulrine's translation has an easy, unforced gait, neither stolid nor self-consciously slangy; it strikes exactly the right note'

Financial Times

'A skilful new translation which moves flexibly between Chekhov's desolation and his domesticity'

Observer
Paperback,128 pages ISBN: 9781854594303Publication Date:
6 Aug 1999
Size: 160mm x 105mm£3.99 £3.19You save £0.80 (20%)

Also by Anton Chekhov:

The Seagull
Three Sisters
Swansong
A Tragic Figure
The Cherry Orchard
Chekhov on Theatre
Ivanov
Uncle Vanya
Three Sisters
The Cherry Orchard
Three Sisters
Chekhov: Shorts
Seagull
On the Evils of Tobacco
Uncle Vanya
The Seagull
Three Sisters
Ivanov
The Cherry Orchard
The Proposal
Three Sisters
The Bear
Chekhov: Four Plays
Chekhov's Three Sisters and Woolf's Orlando
The Wedding
Three Sisters

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Also by Stephen Mulrine:

The Dance of Death
Ibsen: Three Plays
John Gabriel Borkman
The Bear
Swansong
The Servant of Two Masters
The Cherry Orchard
On the Evils of Tobacco
Chekhov: Shorts
Three Sisters
The Seagull
The Wild Duck
An Enemy of the People
Ivanov
Ghosts
Chekhov on Theatre
The Game Of Love And Chance
The Government Inspector
Cinzano & Smirnova's Birthday
The Proposal
Children of the Sun
Six Characters in Search of an Author
Summerfolk
The Wedding
The Misanthrope
A Tragic Figure
The Marriage of Figaro
Chekhov: Four Plays

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