Uncle Vanya

By: Anton Chekhov, David Mamet, Vlada Chernornirdik

Narrated by: Josh Radnor, Stacy Keach, Martin Jarvis, J. D. Cullum, Jennifer Bassey, Holley Fain, Devon Sorvari

Adapted by David Mamet from a translation by Vlada Chernornirdik. In this classic of Chekhov’s canon, an overbearing professor pays a visit to his country estate, where Sonya and Vanya, his daughter and former brother-in-law, have slaved to maintain his wealth. But Vanya is enchanted by the professor’s new wife, while Sonya has fallen for the town’s melancholy doctor. Includes a conversation with Rosamund Bartlett, author of Chekhov: Scenes from a Life. An L.A. Theatre Works full-cast performance starring:

• Josh Radnor, as Astrov
• Stacy Keach, as Vanya
• Holley Fain, as Yelena
• Anna Mathias, as Marina
• Jennifer Bassey, as Mariya
• J. D. Cullum, as Telegin
• Martin Jarvis, as Professor Serebryakov
• Devon Sorvari, as Sonya

Directed by Rosalind Ayres. Recorded by L.A. Theatre Works before a live audience.

©1988 David Mamet (P)2013 L.A. Theatre Works

The Hollywood Theater

Another production where Hollywood ”actors” can pretend to be serious and get psychological gratification from the applause of a clueless audience The overacting is distracting. It is embarrassing.

Poor American soap

It's unfortunate that it sounds like a low budget American tv melodrama... it's distracting, and whether or not this is a style they have chosen It is at the expense of the story.