![]() ![]() Their Uncle Vanya boasts the striking performances of that earlier show, while fleshing out its skeletal design superbly. After Crow’s gave us a revelatory interpretation of The Seagull in 2015, many of us were eager to see director Chris Abraham and his Toronto company tackle another Chekhov. We’ve been waiting a long time for this production. ![]() And then, at some point, you realize you have tears in your eyes. They’re so familiar that you laugh at their – to steal a Miriam Toews phrase – puny sorrows. His characters suffer from frustration, disappointment, boredom, the pangs of unrequited love and the ailments of old age. “You’re just pathetic, like the rest of us.”Īnton Chekhov’s Uncle Vanya, the spellbinding season opener at Crow’s Theatre, is one of the Russian writer’s great tragicomic plays about the pathos of the commonplace. “You’re not insane,” retorts Astrov, the family doctor. When at last his torments become unbearable, Vanya declares that he’s gone insane. That, and making a fool of himself over Yelena, the professor’s young second wife. Instead of working, Vanya has taken to hanging about the house, bitterly bemoaning his wasted life. ![]()
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