'Uncle Vanya': Why not a little vodka with that boring life?
Annie Baker's terrific translation of "Uncle Vanya" begins like this. Marina, an old nurse who does not move much, pours a cup of tea. "You should eat something," she says to Mikhail Lvovich Astrov, a country doctor who is, like many of the personages imagined by Anton Chekhov, bored out of his...