Almeida, LondonUncle Vanya is snapped into focus in a fine-tuned new version by the remarkable writer-director Robert IckeRobert Icke has been giving the British stage electric shocks for the past three years. Particularly with his new creations of old texts. He has said he thinks of adaptation as being "like using a foreign plug. You are in a country where your hairdryer won't work when you plug it straight in. You …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:27AM on February 21, 2016