Uncle Vanya Information
Russian writer Anton Chekhov, also known as Dyádya Ványa, wrote the play Uncle Vanya. The Moscow Art Theatre staged its premiere production in 1899, following its initial publication in 1897, under the direction of Konstantin Stanislavski.
An aging professor and his beautiful, somewhat younger second wife, Yelena, visit the country house that allows them to maintain their city lifestyle in the play. Astrov, a local doctor, and Vanya, the brother of the professor's first wife who has long been in charge of the estate, both fall under Yelena's spell as they lament the monotony of their rural lives.
Uncle Vanya is a substantial rewrite of The Wood Demon, a play that Chekhov wrote ten years earlier. It stands out among Chekhov's great plays.
By explaining Chekhov's revisions, such as reducing the cast from almost two dozen to nine, changing The Wood Demon's climactic suicide to Uncle Vanya's famous failed homicide, and changing the happy ending to an ambiguous, less final resolution, critics like Donald Rayfield, Richard Gilman, and Eric Bentley have attempted to chart Chekhov's dramaturgical method through the 1890s.
According to Rayfield, new research suggests that Chekhov reworked The Wood Demon while visiting the Russian penal colony of Sakhalin in 1891. Sakhalin is located in eastern Russia.
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