Ian Rickson's exemplary production relishes the nuances of Conor McPherson's adaptation Uncle Vanya must surely be the closest, the most essential of Chekhov's plays, its cast " just four main players who are caught up in its fraught emotional action, and four who are essentially support " a concentrated unit even by the playwright's lean standards. Its overlapping strands of unrequited love and desperate loneliness …
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 07:48PM on January 23, 2020