Uncle Vanya (TCG Edition) - by Anton Chekhov (Paperback)

About the Book

A refreshingly intimate and modern spin on a Chekhov classic.

Book Synopsis

Annie Baker, one of the most celebrated playwrights in the United States, lends her truthful observation and elegant command of the colloquial to Anton Chekhov's despairing masterpiece Uncle Vanya. A critical hit in its sold-out Off-Broadway premiere, Baker's telling is a refreshingly intimate and modern treatment of a Chekhovian classic.

Review Quotes

"Superior to any other Uncle Vanya I've read or seen... Baker practices astonishing verbal magic over and over again." - Clancy Martin, Paris Review

"Strikingly intimate... Free of the stilted or formal locutions that clutter up some of the more antique-sounding translations... Ms. Baker has given the play a natural but distinctly contemporary American sound." - Charles Isherwood, New York Times

"Devastatingly beautiful... People are going to be talking about this one for years." - Jacob Gallagher-Ross, Village Voice

"More than a modern-dress treatment of a classic work, it's a fresh rethinking of the material from the perspective of a modern mind." - Marilyn Stasio, Variety

"Baker's strikingly colloquial (yet remarkably faithful) translation... eliminates any distance we might feel from these universal characters first created over 100 years ago, but recognizable to -- and in -- each one of us." - Brian Scott Lipton, Theatermania

"A soul-satisfying Uncle Vanya." - Toby Zinman, Philadelphia Inquirer

"The most intimate and engaging exploration of Chekhov's bleak comedy since Andre Gregory's Vanya on 42nd Street more than 20 years ago." - Jeremy Gerard, Bloomberg

About the Author

Annie Baker's plays include The Antipodes, The Flick (Pulitzer Prize), John, The Aliens (Obie Award), Circle Mirror Transformation (Obie Award), an adaptation of Anton Chekhov's Uncle Vanya, and Infinite Life. Her plays have been produced at more than two hundred theaters throughout the U.S. and in more than a dozen countries. She is the recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship, Guggenheim Fellowship, Steinberg Playwright Award, American Academy of Arts and Letters Award, and the Cullman Fellowship at the New York Public Library.