Word: vanya
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WOOD DEMON. This seldom produced Chekhov play is known in theatrical texts chiefly as an early version of Uncle Vanya. The familiar characters are here: the young doctor obsessed by forest conservation; the fractious old scholar and his bored young wife; Daughter Sonia and Brother-in-Law George (later called Vanya), who are remnants of his life with his dead first wife. There are five more major characters in this version who are elided or eliminated when Chekhov created a masterpiece out of the same material...
...UNCLE VANYA. George C. Scott, Julie Christie and Nicol Williamson helped make this the crowning dramatic event of the year. The splendid cast was obviously inspired by the brilliant direction of Mike Nichols and the irreluctable genius of Anton Chekhov...
...UNCLE VANYA. Three screenings of a BBC film of Laurence Olivier's 1962 Chichester Festival production of the Anton Chekhov play. It's a great play, and with a cast headed by Olivier, Joan Plowright, Michael Redgrave, Sybil Thorndike, and Rosemary Harris, missing it would be pretty stupid. Sunday at 6 and 9, Monday at 8, at the Loeb...
...kind of carbonated El Greco. He has a taut elongated body and funereal brows-yet an effervescent mirth, irony, mischief and intelligence emanate from every tone and gesture of this remarkable actor. In a limited engagement, after each evening's Broadway performance in Chekhov's Uncle Vanya, he unwinds in poetry and song off-Broadway...
Born. To Nicol Williamson, 34, crown prince of the British stage, currently playing Broadway's hit production of Uncle Vanya, and his wife Actress Jill Townsend, 28, their first child: a son; in Manhattan. Name: Luke...