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	Literary Encyclopedia: Diadia Vania [Uncle Vanya]
		Uncle Vanya can be seen in the context of this topical debate about sexuality: Chekhov was amused by Tolstoy's crackpot assumption that the sexual urge was not natural for women, and his equally bizarre notion that Christians must fight the enemy in the bedroom by integrating ideals of chastity into marriage.
		Vanya's rage when she reproaches him for ceasing to be a convincing member of this fraudulent intelligentsia is understandable, but the bitter resentment and self-pity that leads him to claim that “I might have been a Schopenhauer, a Dostoevsky” exposes the ridiculousness of his self-parodying angst.
		Vanya is still in the histrionic throes of self-pity but as his encounter with Astrov goes on, it becomes clearer that it is no longer the aftermath of the Serebryakov debacle that feeds his self-pity, it is the stealing of Yelena by his old friend that hurts most.
	www.litencyc.com /php/sworks.php?rec=true&UID=11678 (3386 words)

	Stephen Dillane in Uncle Vanya
		This "Uncle Vanya" is nearly an hour longer than most stagings of this play, and yet it speeds by, taking with it an audience sensitized to life's ongoing ache for which this fearlessly modern play and production are any theater lover's balm.
		Vanya carries his body like a physical burden; he has also absorbed his suffering to the point where he is nourished by it.
		Vanya is an angry obsessive who sees everywhere a mockery of his own wasted potential: when his mother refers to him as a "guiding light" he reacts with undisguised venom.
	fp.enter.net /~purrfect/vanya.htm (4016 words)

	ArtScope.net: Uncle Vanya at Steppenwolf Studio Theatre (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Uncle Vanya's comedy is very human - funny, without being "zany" - and the ensemble plays lovesickness in its many guises so well, that the ache and foolishness of being in love strike close to home.
		Austin Pendleton (Vanya) and Jeff Perry (Astrov) play well against one another as the dogged, summer-love-sick estate-manager and the active, environmentally-minded doctor; they are fittingly matched as complementary forces, friends as well as rivals, different yet reciprocal natures.
		Pendleton brings to Vanya a contemporary, Woody Allen angst and some rather appealing lickerish looks, as well as the capacity for a desperation that moves us as he comes face to face with the falseness of his idols and the sterility of his life, a long road of untaken opportunities.
	www.artscope.net /PAREVIEWS/Vanya0601.shtml (922 words)

	Uncle Vanya (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Chekhov's Vanya is loved for its humanity and mild comedy at the expense of a character unable to act on his impulses, famously failing to successfully shoot another character.
		In Barker's reconstruction, Vanya's bullet strikes its target and this critical act triggers a liberating energy within the characters of the play which threatens to overturn their stifling and claustrophobic existence.
		As their world collapses, Chekhov himself appears in order to remonstrate with his now rebellious characters but he is subverted by a Vanya determined to jettison the safety of his 'uncle-ness' and discover the freedom of the life outside the room in which he is trapped.
	members.aol.com /wrestles/vanya.html (249 words)

	Uncle Vanya Summary & Essays - Anton Chekhov
		Uncle Vanya, Anton Chekhov’s masterpiece of frustrated longing and wasted lives, was originally a much more conventional drama in its earlier incarnation.
		Uncle Vanya was scheduled to premiere at the Maly Theater in Moscow, but the Theatrical and Literary Committee overseeing it and other imperial theaters asked Chekhov to make substantial revisions to the play.
		Uncle Vanya is widely considered to be his greatest achievement in the latter genre and a masterpiece of modern drama.
	www.enotes.com /pass?notes=uncle-vanya&typeID=59 (298 words)

	RSC Uncle Vanya
		The marvellous Stephen Dillane - whose Uncle Vanya is his finest achievement to date, and who is the best Uncle Vanya I have ever seen onstage - is an actor who can convey distress, depression, pain, even mounting hysteria, with often just a thread of voice and without moving.
		Stephen Dillane's Vanya carries his body like a physical burden; he has also absorbed his suffering to the point where he is nourished by it.
		Dillane's Vanya enters quickly, with a yawn, making the word 'yes' sound like the last breath of a dying man. Unfortunately he is all too alive, a painfully youthful 47-year-old only just past his prime, whose part-time gift for cynicism is translated into alarming fury and later, banal misfortune.
	members.aol.com /dramaddict/rscvanya.htm (657 words)

	ARTicles: Moscow's First Vanya
		A committee at the Maly objected to the scene in which Vanya fires a gun at the Professor, criticizing the gesture as an insult to intellectuals.
		He didn't see MXAT's Uncle Vanya until the spring of 1900, when the Theatre went on tour to Sevastopol and Yalta.
		Uncle Vanya is crying, but Astrov whistles!" Stanislavsky got no further explanation from Chekhov, but he immediately integrated the new stage direction into his performance, interpreting it, or perhaps misinterpreting it, as Astrov's loss of faith in humanity.
	www.amrep.org /articles/1_1/first.html (1364 words)

	Uncle Vanya -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Uncle Vanya is a (Click link for more info and facts about tragicomic) tragicomic play by the (A native or inhabitant of Russia) Russian writer (Russian dramatist whose plays are concerned with the difficulty of communication between people (1860-1904)) Anton Chekhov.
		It was first performed in 1900 under the direction of (Click link for more info and facts about Stanislavski) Stanislavski.
		Its major characters include Serebrakoff, a retired professor; Helena (or Yelena), his young and beautiful second wife; Sonia, his plain daughter by his first marriage; Ivan Voynitsky ("Uncle Vanya"), Sonia's uncle; and Astroff, a doctor.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/u/un/uncle_vanya.htm (104 words)

	PlanetPapers - Realism in Uncle Vanya and A Doll's House
		In Uncle Vanya the wrong that is committed is not directed toward one character, but two.
		Sonya and Uncle Vanya take on the burden of running the estate for Serebryakov without reimbursement while he lives abroad and enjoys the riches of life.
		Uncle Vanya cries while Sonya talks about how hard they will work for her father and expect nothing in return.
	www.planetpapers.com /Assets/1145.php (1516 words)

	theatreguidelondon - uncle vanya - 2002
		Vanya is the manager of an estate that belonged to his late sister, and he and his niece have been sending its profits to the sister's husband, a famous professor.
		Meanwhile Vanya is beginning to realise that the professor is a fraud and he has wasted his life in his service, the niece loves the doctor, and a few other members of the household have their own stories.
		The best Vanya I ever saw was Michael Gambon in 1988, playing a man who suddenly comes face-to-face with his own irrelevance, and thus making the play seem to anticipate both Kafka and Beckett in its starkness.
	www.theatreguidelondon.co.uk /reviews/unclevanya02.htm (594 words)

	Uncle Vanya, Anton Chekhov, 1896
		Look at Uncle Vanya, he does nothing now but follow you like a shadow, and I have left my work today to come here and talk with you.
		That Uncle Vanya says I have the blood of a mermaid in my veins: "Give free rein to your nature for once in your life!" Perhaps it's right that I should.
		Uncle Vanya and I have toiled without rest; he would never spend a penny on us, we sent it all to you.
	www.eldritchpress.org /ac/vanya.htm (12871 words)

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		VOITSKAYA, widow of a privy councilor, and mother of Serebrakoff's first wife IVAN (VANYA) VOITSKI, her son MICHAEL ASTROFF, a doctor ILIA (WAFFLES) TELEGIN, an impoverished landowner MARINA, an old nurse A WORKMAN The scene is laid on SEREBRAKOFF'S country place UNCLE VANYA ACT I A country house on a terrace.
		Look at Uncle Vanya, he does nothing now but haunt you like a shadow, and I have left my work to-day to come here and talk with you.
		Uncle Vanya has toiled without rest; he would never spend a penny on us, we sent it all to you.
	www.gutenberg.org /dirs/etext99/vanya10.txt (13632 words)

	SparkNotes: Uncle Vanya: Context
		A founder of both the modern short story and modern prose drama, Anton Pavlovich Chekhov, was born in the sea town of Taganrog, Ukraine in 1860.
		The plot peaks in a climatic suicide (Vanya's) and ends happily with the pairing off of the surviving characters.
		Uncle Vanya, Chekhov's masterpiece on lost time, wasted lives, and impossible loves, revises the play altogether.
	www.sparknotes.com /drama/unclevanya/context.html (771 words)

	Variety.com - Reviews - Uncle Vanya
		With "Uncle Vanya," the reverse is the case, a lifeless, aimless presentation of a century-old play that has not only stood the test of time but is currently so in vogue that several readings are available to the Chekhov enthusiast.
		Courtenay capably plumbs the depths of Vanya's sadness and humiliation as he falls under the spell of Serebryakov's alluring new wife, Yelena (Amanda Donohoe).
		But this "Vanya" never comes to life, and it pales before the most significant "Vanya" of our time, Andre Gregory's utterly engrossing "Vanya on 42 nd Street," adapted for film by Louis Malle, with Wallace Shawn in the title role and Larry Pine as Astrov.
	www.variety.com /review/VE1117903756?categoryid=33&cs=1 (677 words)

	The Project Gutenberg eBook of Uncle Vanya, by Anton Chekhov
		The Project Gutenberg eBook of Uncle Vanya, by Anton Chekhov Copyright laws are changing all over the world.
		It is thought immoral for a woman to deceive an old husband whom she hates, but quite moral for her to strangle her poor youth in her breast and banish every vital desire from her heart.
		That Uncle Vanya says I have the blood of a Nixey in my veins: "Give rein to your nature for once in your life!" Perhaps it is right that I should.
	www.gutenberg.org /dirs/etext99/vanya10h.htm (13599 words)

	"Uncle Vanya"
		Vanya, sensitive and intelligent, is hopelessly smitten with Yelena and envious of the fascination the pompous professor undeservedly exudes.
		Irritated by Vanya and unwilling to yield to her fascination with Astrov, she plays intermediary for the plain Sonya, who vainly yearns for the doctor.
		The cast is rounded out by Maria Vasilyevna, Vanya's widowed mother, another woman taken in by Serebryakov; Telegin, a ruined landowner and permanent parasitic houseguest; and Marina, the faithful old nanny.
	www.newyorkmetro.com /nymetro/arts/theater/reviews/3101 (475 words)

	Review of Uncle Vanya (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Uncle Vanya with an all-star cast that included himself, Michael Redgrave, Sybil Thorndike, Joan Plowright, Lewis Casson, Joan Greenwood and Fay Compton.
		Uncle Vanya (1896) is set, as are all Chekhov’s plays, against the background of pre-Revolutionary Russia near the turn of the century and has its central character Vanya Sebryakov who is the estate manager for his brother, the Professor, who lives there with his beautiful young wife Yelena and his grown-up daughter, Sonya.
		Now Vanya is thoroughly disillusioned and filled with despair at the realization that he has expended all his energies and efforts on a fraud and a charlatan.
	www.sparrowsp.addr.com /articles/review_uncle_vanya.htm (452 words)

	Variety.com - Reviews - Uncle Vanya
		Jacobi is, of course, a brilliant actor with a long and distinguished list of credits, but he is a brilliant actor of a specific type (as indeed all brilliant actors are): He's excelled particularly in Shakespeare, where language is the key to character and characters rise to histrionic heights on the wings of words.
		As Yelena, the object of both Astrov and Vanya's adoration, Laura Linney certainly looks resplendent in Tony Walton's plush Russian gowns, but her performance is too stiff, supercilious and stagy.
		Even the deep affection between Vanya and his niece Sonya, the only love equation in the play that is an equal one, fails to register.
	www.variety.com /review/VE1117915724?categoryid=33&cs=1 (982 words)

	Uncle Vanya : Chekhov
		But in the hands of the Moscow Art Theatre, the play was transformed into a critical success, and Chekhov soon realized that the earlier production had failed because the actors had not understood their roles.
		"Uncle Vanya" is an observation of ordinary people who are comically inept at managing their own lives.
		They don't understand their emotions and impulses, they can't relate to each other; they squander their opportunities; they dream, they talk but hardly ever do.
	homepage.ntlworld.com /paulmillington/plays0203/unclevanya.html (939 words)

	Theater News - Reviews: Uncle Vanya -
		In Anton Chekhov's Uncle Vanya, it means being called an idealist and a crank.
		The McCarter Theatre Center production of Uncle Vanya walks that line with grace, thanks in no small part to the efforts of its artistic director: Emily Mann, who became famous for her work on docudramas, uses her ear for natural dialogue to adapt this classic play.
		Georgine Hall embodies the nagging mother as she tells Vanya to be more like his nemesis professor; William McGuire's professor has a limp that is worthy of Richard III; Natacha Roi's Yelana clings to her shawl as if in mourning for her life; and Astrov's dreams of Russian forests are readable in Michael Siberry's eyes.
	www.theatermania.com /content/news.cfm?int_news_id=3462 (623 words)

	Uncle Vanya, a CurtainUp review
		His Vanya is charming but angry; coolly ironic, yet overwrought like a schoolboy with yearning for his brother-in-law's lovely wife.
		Laura Linney is certainly lovely enough to make both Vanya and Astrov's infatuation with her understandable, but she lacks the famous lethargy that is at the heart of the young wife who's too worn down by her ennui to have more than a flickering interest in Astrov.
		Uncle Vanya adapted by Carol Rocamora Uncle Jack, Chekhov, modernized by Jeff Cohen CurtainUp's Chekhov Page which includes links to other Chekhov reviews, books.
	www.curtainup.com /unclevanya.html (874 words)

	Uncle Vanya Tickets - Uncle Vanya
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	Uncle Vanya
		Both Vanya (Steven Skybell) and the family friend, Dr. Astrov (Michael Siberry), fall for Yelena: Vanya with hopeless ardor, and Astrov with lustful admiration.
		Interestingly, she is not the bitchy beauty she is often played as, but a woman who is trapped by her past errors and present inertia; Roi conveys little of the self-disgust that comes with self-knowledge, which is (to my mind) the hallmark of Yelena's character.
		I felt the same lack of complexity in Skybell's Vanya; when Astrov says to Vanya near the end, "You are a ridiculous fool and you know it," we should be certain he does know it, since, as Chekhov shows us in play after play, it's the knowing it that's so hard to live with.
	www.citypaper.net /articles/2003-05-08/theater.shtml (618 words)

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	Uncle Vanya, a CurtainUp review
		Uncle Vanya, as deeply moving as it should be, is never merely a tragedy, however tragic Uncle Vanya's life may seem to him to be.
		Here his oddities do not distract but rather enhance his performance, largely because Uncle Vanya himself is an obnoxious character, however loveable we - the audience - may find him.
		Berlinsky is not an especially attractive actor, but neither is Vanya, so when Yelena pushes him away, we understand both his pain and her revulsion.
	www.curtainup.com /vanyacocteau.html (684 words)

	UNCLE VANYA (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Most people would probably agree that Chekhov's Uncle Vanya is one of the great plays of the modern theatre.
		It is the story of Ivan Petrovich (Vanya), a middle-aged man who has spent 25 years managing an estate in the Russian countryside for Professor Serebryakov, who was married to Vanya's late sister.
		Yelena, however, is attracted to Vanya's worldly friend Astrov, the local doctor, but will not leave the stifling security that her marriage to Serebryakov provides.
	www.oobr.com /top/volThree/six/OOBR-Vanya.html (406 words)

	Chekhov, Anton P.: Uncle Vanya (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		For many years the brother (Uncle Vanya) has sent the farm's proceeds to the professor, while receiving only a small salary himself.
		Astrov and Uncle Vanya both fall in love with Yelena; she spurns them both.
		While Vanya is the protagonist of this play (and a rather ineffectual one, at that), Doctor Astrov plays a major supporting role.
	endeavor.med.nyu.edu /lit-med/lit-med-db/webdocs/webdescrips/chekhov822-des-.html (373 words)

	Uncle Vanya (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		There was a lot of intelligence on display in the Deptford Players' production of Uncle Vanya, and if it wasn't quite the revelatory histrionic experience it could have been, it was a least a quietly moving one.
		The delicate interplay between the characters was lost, and despite True's smart direction and the generally good work of the fine cast, this was an Uncle Vanya that had not only been stripped to the bone, but also stripped of its heart.
		With just a tiny flutter of a hand, a furtive, longing glance or a mild purse of her lips, she easily filled in the blanks left open by her father's script and became the emotional core of the evening, her final scene truly heartbreaking as Sonya realizes that her ordinary dreams are shattered.
	www.oobr.com /top/volNine/twentysix/vanya.htm (307 words)

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