Uncle Vanya
by Anton Chekhov
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Author: Anton ChekhovAdapter: David Mamet
Edition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 1994-01-21
ISBN: 0802131514
Number of pages: 96
Publisher: Grove Press
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Book Review: Checkov at his best
Summary: 5 Stars
I have read many versions of Uncle Vanya, but this edition is an up-beat, funny, and, ultimately wonderful version of the excellent story by one of Russias beloved writers. I was looking for the right edition to use in my school for the school play, and this edition the kids could connect to. It dosen't have a lot of that Shakespere mumbo-jumbo that you have to read 50 times. This is accesible and very good. rock on David Mamet.
Summary of Uncle Vanya
Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright David Mamet?s Uncle Vanya is a sparkling restoration of a masterpiece of the modern stage, marked by Mamet?s finely tuned ear for dialogue and memorable poetic imagery.
In "Uncle Vanya," a retired professor and his beautiful young wife return to the country estate left by his deceased first wife to find themselves overwhelmed by the stagnant inevitability of the rituals of their life and class, and mercilessly taxed by the encroachment of age at the expense of youth. All of the play?s characters are plunged into that precarious state where, in Beckett?s words, “the boredom of living is replaced by the suffering of being.?
In "Uncle Vanya," a retired professor and his beautiful young wife return to the country estate left by his deceased first wife to find themselves overwhelmed by the stagnant inevitability of the rituals of their life and class, and mercilessly taxed by the encroachment of age at the expense of youth. All of the play?s characters are plunged into that precarious state where, in Beckett?s words, “the boredom of living is replaced by the suffering of being.?
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