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Uncle Vanya (International) assertion single work   drama   - Four acts
Issue Details: First known date: 1897... 1897 Uncle Vanya
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Adaptations

form y separately published work icon Country Life Michael Blakemore , ( dir. Michael Blakemore ) Australia : Dalton Films , 1994 Z59176 1994 single work film/TV

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.

Uncle Vanya Reg Cribb , 2005 single work drama

Notes

  • Uncle Vanya is included in AustLit because of an Australian-written adaptation.

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Works about this Work

Canberra Repertory: Chekov's Uncle Vanya at Theatre 3 Is Fresh and Insightful Alanna Maclean , 2016 single work review
— Appears in: Brisbane Times , 3 May 2016;

— Review of Uncle Vanya Anton Chekhov , 1897 single work drama
'Geoffrey Borny's production of Uncle Vanya approaches a theatre classic with a sensible freshness. American playwright David Mamet's adaptation makes the characters sound like real people, even though the setting is rural Russia around the time of the play's first performance in 1899. ...'
Canberra Repertory: Chekov's Uncle Vanya at Theatre 3 Is Fresh and Insightful Alanna Maclean , 2016 single work review
— Appears in: Brisbane Times , 3 May 2016;

— Review of Uncle Vanya Anton Chekhov , 1897 single work drama
'Geoffrey Borny's production of Uncle Vanya approaches a theatre classic with a sensible freshness. American playwright David Mamet's adaptation makes the characters sound like real people, even though the setting is rural Russia around the time of the play's first performance in 1899. ...'
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