Uncle Vanya From Moscow’s Vakhtangov Theater (2018)
Rimas Tuminas' reimagining of Anton Chekhov's tale about broken illusions and dashed hopes is freed from its traditional trappings, leaving behind a battlefield for passions and colliding ambitions. We are given an empty space from which life has departed, a theater space with grey slips, a plaster of Paris lion – a symbol of Petersburg, perhaps the ancestor who built the house came from there, a workbench made out of rough boards, an old sofa, several chairs of different colors. This UNCLE VANYA is about what Chekhov’s characters think and what they admit to only at moments of emotional turmoil. They are at times tongue-tied or overly brutal, but their revelations break out of them fervently, desperately just as a man breaks out of a stuffy room into the open air. A Golden Mask Winner for Best Drama, featuring the inimitable Sergey Makovetskiy as Voynitsky.
Director: Rimas Tuminas
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Sergey Makovetskiy as Ivan Petrovich Voynitsky |
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Lyudmila Masakova as Mariya Vasilievna Voynitskaya |
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Vladimir Vdovichenkov / Artur Ivanov as Mikhail Lvovich Astrov (Doctor) |
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Yury Shlykov / Alexander Andrienko as Aleksandr Vladimirovich Serebryakov (Professor) |
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Anna Dubrovskaya as Elena Andreevna (Serebryakov's Wife) |
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Eugenia Kregzhde / Maria Berdinskikh as Sophia Aleksandrovna (Sonya) |
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Yury Kraskov as Ilya Ilyich Telegin |
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Lyubov Korneva as Marina (Nurse) |
| Directing | Rimas Tuminas | Director |
| Art | Adomas Jacovskis | Set Designer |
| Sound | Faustas Latėnas | Music Arranger |
| Lighting | Olga Kalyavina | Lighting Design |
| Lighting | Ruslan Knushevitsky | Lighting Design |
| Lighting | Natalya Menshikova | Lighting Design |
