Seeing ‘Uncle Vanya’ in four acts, four rooms
Turns out it’s not that far from here to 19th-century Russia. Beginning next Thursday, the Apollinaire Theatre Company will use the high ceilings and architectural details of its 1906 building to its advantage, turning the Chelsea Theatre Works into a fading 1890s country estate for Craig Lucas’s adaptation of Chekhov’s “Uncle Vanya.’’ Each of the four acts will take place in a dif…