ACA presents...

Uncle Vanya

Written by Anton Chekhov, directed by Troy Harrison and presented by the Graduating Company of 2024 as part of the Realism Series

About this play:

Vanya and his niece Sonya have worked most of their lives tending to the crumbling family estate located deep in the Russian countryside.
When Sonya's father, Professor Serebryakov and his new, much younger wife suddenly return to the estate the Professor's narcissism and his young wife's sexual allure wreak havoc amongst the estate's inhabitants.

CAST:

Jonah Elias
Sebastian Gray
Niamh Kilkelly
Ava McClean
Ellen Peebles
Umai Shantharajah
Georgia Silva
Cameron Sutton

Director's Notes:

I was always one of those actors who found Chekhov boring - "But nothing happens!" I would lament.
This is the second Chekhov play I have now directed. The first being The Seagull and the "nothing" happening is now what I love most about his writing.
Chekhov writes about people and their relationships and their hardships.

What I love about his writing can be expressed perfectly by a quote from the man himself:

"In real life, people don't spend every single minute shooting each other, hanging themselves, and confessing love. They don't always say clever things. They are occupied with eating, drinking, flirting, and saying stupid things - which is what should be shown on the stage. A play should be written in which people arrive, go away, have dinner, talk about the weather, and play cards.
Life must be exactly as it is, and people as they are. Not on stilts.
Let everything on the stage be just as complicated - and at the same time just as simple - as it is in life. People eat their dinner, just eat their dinner, and all the while their happiness is being established - or their lives are being broken up."
- Anton Chekhov

Runnning Time: 100 minutes with no interval

Content Warnings: TBC