Uncle Vanya, Vakhtangov Theatre Company, Noël Coward Theatre by David Nice

Hot on the heels of the latest English uncle over at the Vaudeville comes Dyadya Vanya from Moscow, bringing with it no samovar or old lace. Rimas Tuminas, the Vakhtangov Theatre's artistic director since 2007, has chucked out the Stanislavsky tradition of Chekhovian naturalism and in his own singular attempt to render what he thinks the  characters feel as well say serves up a stylised ritual that nearly suffoc…

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