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form y separately published work icon Country Life single work   film/TV  
Adaptation of Uncle Vanya Anton Chekhov , 1897 single work drama
Issue Details: First known date: 1994... 1994 Country Life
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Adapted from the play Uncle Vanya by Anton Chekhov, Country Life is set in Australia ca. 1919. Alexander Voysey, who has been living abroad for twenty-two years, returns with his new and much younger wife Deborah to the estate in the country where his daughter Sally and brother-in-law Uncle Jack live. Another character is Dr Max Askey. A free-thinker and something of a playboy, his ideas clash with the conservative town folks. Deborah's popularity with the local men quickly becomes apparent. Although she and Max develop a passion for each other nothing eventuates. Sally, meanwhile secretly desires the older doctor, but her feelings are unrequited. Alexander eventually decides to sell the estate but is foiled by Jack, who by then realises that his brother-in-law is a fake. Alexander and his wife are subsequently forced to leave in search of greener pastures.

Country Life draws parallels between its Russian model and the Australian setting, with most of Chekhov's original story intact.

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— Appears in: Senses of Cinema , March-April no. 19 2002;
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— Appears in: The Canberra Times , 1 August 1995; (p. 18)

— Review of Country Life Michael Blakemore , 1994 single work film/TV
From Russia with Love Keith Connolly , 1994 single work biography
— Appears in: The Sunday Age , 6 November 1994; (p. 6)
To Life II Michael McGirr , 1994 single work review
— Appears in: Eureka Street , December vol. 4 no. 10 1994; (p. 45)

— Review of Country Life Michael Blakemore , 1994 single work film/TV
Country Clubbed Helen Garner , 1994 single work review
— Appears in: The Independent Monthly , November vol. 6 no. 5 1994; (p. 88)

— Review of Country Life Michael Blakemore , 1994 single work film/TV
Chekhov Collides with the Cultural Cringe Sandra Hall , 1994 single work review
— Appears in: The Bulletin , 1 November vol. 116 no. 5944 1994; (p. 108)

— Review of Country Life Michael Blakemore , 1994 single work film/TV
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— Appears in: The Courier-Mail , 29 October 1994; (p. wkd 8)

— Review of Country Life Michael Blakemore , 1994 single work film/TV
Life. What Life? Tom Ryan , 1994 single work review
— Appears in: The Sunday Age , 30 October 1994; (p. 7)

— Review of Country Life Michael Blakemore , 1994 single work film/TV
Surviving Antipodes with a Stiff Upper Lip Rachel Gibson , 1994 single work review
— Appears in: The Age , 28 October 1994; (p. 7)

— Review of Country Life Michael Blakemore , 1994 single work film/TV
Critic's Choice Neil Jillett , 1994 single work review
— Appears in: The Age , 28 October 1994; (p. 5)

— Review of Country Life Michael Blakemore , 1994 single work film/TV
"This Land is Mine/ This Land is Me" : Reconciling Harmonies in One Night the Moon Fiona Probyn , Catherine Simpson , 2002 single work criticism
— Appears in: Senses of Cinema , March-April no. 19 2002;
Movie Success Won't Spoil Michael Blakemore 1994 single work biography
— Appears in: The West Australian , 31 October 1994; (p. 5)
Look at the Way We Saw Ourselves Sonia Harford , 1994 single work biography
— Appears in: The Age , 1 November 1994; (p. 20)
Republican Edge Portrayed in Film Lisa Yallamas , 1994 single work biography
— Appears in: The Courier-Mail , 27 October 1994; (p. 32)
From Russia with Love Keith Connolly , 1994 single work biography
— Appears in: The Sunday Age , 6 November 1994; (p. 6)
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