Production Vanya is unique in that all nine male and female roles are played by Andrew Scott, one of the most popular stage and screen actors of our time. The audience has loved him in the serials Sherlock, The witty woman/Fleabag and Dark matter/His Dark Materialsas well as in a James Bond film Spectrum and in last year’s drama All of Us Strangers.
The performance Vanya Played at the Duke of York’s Theater in London from 15 September to 21 October 2023. Simon Stevens has modernized the classic play – the names of the characters have been anglicized, some characters have changed professions, there is no shepherd on the stage – but all of Chekhov’s main themes have been preserved.
“There is no author I love more than Chekhov,” emphasizes Simon Stevens. “No one else exists in this extraordinary space between sadness, longing, sex, murder, vulnerability and fearlessness. Uncle Vanya is one of the greatest plays about ambition, regret and wasted effort.” Savu Uncle Vanyas the version is considered by the playwright to be a “subtle distillate” of the original. He has already adapted for the stage Cherry orchard (2014; directed by Katie Mitchell) and Kaiju (2017; directed by Sean Holmes).
Simon Stevens praises Andrew Scott’s talent: “I have worked with many great actors, but I have never worked with a more intelligent, more attentive, more thoughtful, more playful, more capable, more searching, sadder and wilder actor than Andrew Scott,” the playwright describes the Irish artist. Andrew Scott has acted in his plays Sea wall (2008; written specifically for Andrew Scott) and Birdland (2014).
“I like the idea of trying to portray what a writer experiences on stage by hearing all the characters in his head,” says Andrew Scott.. Photo – Mark Brenner
Vanua directed by Sam Yates. The idea to turn the play into a one-act show was born by accident. The playwright and director had invited Andrew Scott to a reading of the play. Each participant read the lines of different characters, and they saw a similarity between Vanya and Doctor Astrov. Andrew advised Scott to try reading the text of the two characters, and then others came along. “In the first reading, we miscast the roles, and in the end I had to play with myself. We made sure that, although the characters claim to be different from each other, in reality some of them are very similar,” recalls the actor.
“When I’m acting, I’m more interested in those similarities than being able to play each character with a different, sometimes funny intonation. This show is about the act of creation. I like the idea of trying to portray what a writer experiences on stage by hearing all the characters in their in the head,” adds Andrew Scott.
“The viewer has to interpret what he hears for himself, he has to understand it. In this process, it explores where the character begins and ends, and how the character’s gender, age, social status, wealth and origin give the character meaning and make him alive,” says Vanas playwright.
Currently at the Theater Royal, London Haymarket Oscar Wilde is featured Dorian Gray’s hometown, adapted for the stage by director Kip Williams. In this show, which can be visited until May 11, all 26 roles are played by the series Succession/Succession star Sarah Snook.
Above all the characters of William Shakespeare in Macbeth has been played by actor Alan Cummings, while actor and director Robert Lepage has turned Shakespeare Hamlet for his one-man show Elsinora.
Performances Vanya recording in the cinema Forum Cinemas will be shown in four screenings, tickets for two of which have been sold (February 22 and 25). Tickets are still available for the screenings on February 24 at 17.40 and on March 2 at 18.
2024-02-21 22:56:46
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