UK, 2023
Performer and co-creator: Andrew Scott; adaptor e co-creator: Simon Stephens; director and co-creator: Sam Yates; designer and co-creator: Rosanna Vize; lighting designer: James Farncombe; sound designer: Dan Balfour; video designer: Jack Phelan; movement director: Michela Meazza; music: Kelly Moran; costume designer: Natalie Pryce;
Running time: 100′
The Laurence Olivier Award for Best Revival 2024 – Critics’ Circle Theatre Award 2024 – WhatsOnStage Awards 2024
SYNOPSIS
Inspired by Chekhov’s “Uncle Vanya”, the play follows a group of characters living on a rural estate in the Russian countryside, entangled in a web of unrequited love and longing. At the centre is Uncle Vanya, who feels like he wasted his life serving his late mother’s former husband. The Irish actor Andrew Scott brings to life these multiple characters, exploring the kaleidoscope of human emotions, harnessing the power of the intimate bond between actor and audience to delve deeper into the human psyche.
DIRECTOR
Born in 1976, in Dublin, Ireland, Andrew Scott is an internationally acclaimed actor in theatre, film and television. Winner of a Critics’ Choice Television Award, a BAFTA, a WhatsOnStage and an Olivier Award. Among his major theatrical successes, prior to Vanya: Three Kings, Present Laughter, Design for Living, Hamlet. For television he worked in Ripley, The Pursuit of Love, Fleabag, Sherlock (BAFTA for Best Supporting Actor). His recent films include: All of Us Strangers, Catherine Called Birdy, Sam Mendes‘ Oslo, 1917, Ken Loach’s Jimmy’s Hall, Matthew Warchus’ Pride (BIFA for Best Supporting Actor), Locke and The Stag (Irish Film Festa 2014) and Handsome Devil (Irish Film Festa 2018)
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