Uncle Vanya, St James Theatre
Purists may take issue with Anya Reiss's incursion into the classics " having already tackled The Seagull and Three Sisters, she's now turned her dogged 21st-century gaze on Uncle Vanya " but Reiss's adaptation, though fresh and punchy, in fact is notable for its amiable fidelity. The framing is in place for a provocative revamp, yet, in appropriately Chekhovian fashion, Reiss appears to have hit some kind of a …