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Uncle Vanya

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Uncle Vanya (translit) is a play by the Russian playwright Anton Chekhov. [1]

68 relations: Aaron Posner, Alan Ayckbourn, Andrei Konchalovsky, Anthony Hopkins, Anton Chekhov, Antony Sher, Arthur Schopenhauer, August (1996 film), BBC, Cate Blanchett, Charles Phu, Chekhov's gun, Country Life (film), David Mamet, Derek Jacobi, Dining room, Donald Rayfield, Donald Sinden, Eric Bentley, Franchot Tone, Fyodor Dostoevsky, George C. Scott, Harold Hobson, Hypochondriasis, Ian McKellen, Jacki Weaver, Joan Plowright, Julianne Moore, Konstantin Stanislavski, Lake District, Laurence Olivier, Louis Malle, Max Adrian, Michael Gambon, Michael Redgrave, Morphine, Moscow Art Theatre, Oahu, Off-Broadway, Olga Knipper, Outback, Peter Dinklage, Play of the Month, Playwright, Project Gutenberg, Reduced Shakespeare Company, Richard Gilman, Rosemary Harris, Russian language, Russian literature, ..., Sakhalin, Sally Burgess, Sam Neill, Sonya's Story, Stephen Joseph Theatre, The New Yorker, The Sunday Times, The Wood Demon (play), Tom Courtney, Trevor Eve, Uncle Vanya (1957 film), Uncle Vanya (1963 film), Uncle Vanya (1970 film), Vanya on 42nd Street, Vienna Festival, Wallace Shawn, William Hurt, Zombie. Expand index (18 more) »

Aaron Posner

Aaron Posner is an American playwright and theatre director.

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Alan Ayckbourn

Sir Alan Ayckbourn, (born 12 April 1939) is a prolific English playwright and director.

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Andrei Konchalovsky

Andrei Sergeyevich Mikhalkov-Konchalovsky (Андре́й Серге́евич Михалко́в-Кончало́вский; born August 20, 1937) is a Russian film director, film producer and screenwriter.

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Anthony Hopkins

Sir Philip Anthony Hopkins (born 31 December 1937), better known as Anthony Hopkins, is a Welsh actor, widely considered to be one of the world's greatest living actors.

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Anton Chekhov

Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (ɐnˈton ˈpavɫəvʲɪtɕ ˈtɕɛxəf; 29 January 1860 – 15 July 1904) was a Russian playwright and short-story writer, who is considered to be among the greatest writers of short fiction in history.

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Antony Sher

Sir Antony Sher, KBE (born 14 June 1949) is a British actor of South African origin, a two-time Laurence Olivier Award winner and four-time nominee, who joined the Royal Shakespeare Company in 1982 and toured in many roles, as well as appearing on film and TV, and working as a writer and theatre director.

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Arthur Schopenhauer

Arthur Schopenhauer (22 February 1788 – 21 September 1860) was a German philosopher.

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August (1996 film)

August is a 1996 British drama film directed by and starring Anthony Hopkins as Ieuan (IPA:j/əɨ/a/n) Davies, and featuring Rhys Ifans in a small role in one of his earliest films, as Griffiths.

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BBC

The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) is a British public service broadcaster.

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Cate Blanchett

Catherine Elise Blanchett, (born 14 May 1969) is an Australian actress and theatre director.

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Charles Phu

Charles Phu (Traditional Chinese: 符傳禎; Russian: Чарльз Фу), is a London-based architectural designer and opera set designer.

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Chekhov's gun

Chekhov's gun is a dramatic principle that states that every element in a story must be necessary, and irrelevant elements should be removed; elements should not appear to make "false promises" by never coming into play.

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Country Life (film)

Country Life is a 1994 Australian drama film, adapted from the play Uncle Vanya by Anton Chekhov.

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David Mamet

David Alan Mamet (born November 30, 1947) is an American playwright, film director, screenwriter and author.

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Derek Jacobi

Sir Derek George Jacobi, (born 22 October 1938) is an English actor and stage director.

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Dining room

A dining room is a room for consuming food.

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Donald Rayfield

(Patrick) Donald Rayfield (born February 1942, Oxford) is professor of Russian and Georgian at Queen Mary University of London.

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Donald Sinden

Sir Donald Alfred Sinden, CBE, FRSA (9 October 1923 – 12 September 2014) was an English actor in theatre, film, television and radio as well as an author.

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Eric Bentley

Eric Russell Bentley (born September 14, 1916) is a British-born American critic, playwright, singer, editor and translator.

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Franchot Tone

Stanislaus Pascal Franchot Tone (February 27, 1905 – September 18, 1968), was an American stage, film, and television actor.

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Fyodor Dostoevsky

Fyodor Mikhailovich DostoevskyHis name has been variously transcribed into English, his first name sometimes being rendered as Theodore or Fedor.

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George C. Scott

George Campbell Scott (October 18, 1927 – September 22, 1999) was an American stage and film actor, director, and producer.

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Harold Hobson

Sir Harold Hobson (4 August 1904 – 12 March 1992) was an English drama critic and author.

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Hypochondriasis

Hypochondriasis or hypochondria is a condition in which a person is excessively and unduly worried about having a serious illness.

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Ian McKellen

Sir Ian Murray McKellen (born 25 May 1939) is an English actor.

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Jacki Weaver

Jacqueline Ruth Weaver (born 25 May 1947) is an Australian theatre, film, and television actress.

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Joan Plowright

Joan Ann Olivier, Baroness Olivier, DBE (née Plowright; born 28 October 1929), commonly known as Dame Joan Plowright, is an English retired actress whose career has spanned over six decades.

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Julianne Moore

Julianne Moore (born Julie Anne Smith; December 3, 1960) is an American actress, prolific in films since the early 1990s.

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Konstantin Stanislavski

Konstantin Sergeievich Stanislavski (né Alexeiev; p; 7 August 1938) was a seminal Russian theatre practitioner.

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Lake District

The Lake District, also known as the Lakes or Lakeland, is a mountainous region in North West England.

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Laurence Olivier

Laurence Kerr Olivier, Baron Olivier, (22 May 1907 – 11 July 1989) was an English actor and director who, along with his contemporaries Ralph Richardson and John Gielgud, dominated the British stage of the mid-20th century.

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Louis Malle

Louis Marie Malle (30 October 1932 – 23 November 1995) was a French film director, screenwriter, and producer.

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Max Adrian

Max Adrian (1 November 1903 – 19 January 1973) was a Northern Irish stage, film and television actor and singer.

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Michael Gambon

Sir Michael John Gambon, (born 19 October 1940) is an Irish actor who has worked in theatre, television, and film.

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Michael Redgrave

Sir Michael Scudamore Redgrave CBE (20 March 1908 – 21 March 1985) was an English stage and film actor, director, manager, and author.

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Morphine

Morphine is a pain medication of the opiate variety which is found naturally in a number of plants and animals.

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Moscow Art Theatre

The Moscow Art Theatre (or MAT; Московский Художественный академический театр (МХАТ), Moskovskiy Hudojestvenny Akademicheskiy Teatr (МHАТ)) is a theatre company in Moscow.

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Oahu

O‘ahu (often anglicized Oahu) known as "The Gathering Place" is the third-largest of the Hawaiian Islands.

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Off-Broadway

An Off-Broadway theatre is any professional venue in Manhattan in New York City with a seating capacity between 100 and 499, inclusive.

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Olga Knipper

Olga Leonardovna Knipper-Chekhova (Ольга Леонардовна Книппер-Чехова; – 22 March 1959) was a Russian and Soviet stage actress.

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Outback

The Outback is the vast, remote interior of Australia.

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Peter Dinklage

Peter Hayden Dinklage (born June 11, 1969) is an American actor and film producer.

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Play of the Month

Play of the Month is a BBC television anthology series, which ran from 1965 to 1983 featuring productions of classic and contemporary stage plays (or adaptations) which were usually broadcast on BBC1.

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Playwright

A playwright or dramatist (rarely dramaturge) is a person who writes plays.

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Project Gutenberg

Project Gutenberg (PG) is a volunteer effort to digitize and archive cultural works, to "encourage the creation and distribution of eBooks".

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Reduced Shakespeare Company

The Reduced Shakespeare Company (RSC) is a touring American acting troupe that performs fast-paced, seemingly improvisational condensations of huge topics.

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Richard Gilman

Richard Martin Gilman (April 30, 1923, Brooklyn, New York – October 28, 2006, Kusatsu, Japan) was an American drama and literary critic.

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Rosemary Harris

Rosemary Ann Harris (born 19 September 1927) is an English born actress known for her role as Aunt May in Sam Raimi's Spider-Man trilogy.

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Russian language

Russian (rússkiy yazýk) is an East Slavic language, which is official in Russia, Belarus, Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan, as well as being widely spoken throughout Eastern Europe, the Baltic states, the Caucasus and Central Asia.

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Russian literature

Russian literature refers to the literature of Russia and its émigrés and to the Russian-language literature of several independent nations once a part of what was historically Rus', the Russian Empire or the Soviet Union.

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Sakhalin

Sakhalin (Сахалин), previously also known as Kuye Dao (Traditional Chinese:庫頁島, Simplified Chinese:库页岛) in Chinese and in Japanese, is a large Russian island in the North Pacific Ocean, lying between 45°50' and 54°24' N.

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Sally Burgess

Sally Burgess FRCM (born 9 Oct 1953) is a South African-born British operatic lyric mezzo-soprano, opera director, and educator.

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Sam Neill

Nigel John Dermot Neill (born 14 September 1947), known professionally as Sam Neill, is a New Zealand actor who first achieved leading roles in films such as Omen III: The Final Conflict, Possession, and Dead Calm and on television in Reilly, Ace of Spies.

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Sonya's Story

Sonya's Story (Russian: История Сони) is an opera by the British composer Neal Thornton to a libretto based on the original Russian text of Anton Chekhov's play Uncle Vanya.

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Stephen Joseph Theatre

The Stephen Joseph Theatre is a theatre in the round in Scarborough, North Yorkshire, England that was founded by Stephen Joseph and was the first theatre in the round in Britain.

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The New Yorker

The New Yorker is an American magazine of reportage, commentary, criticism, essays, fiction, satire, cartoons, and poetry.

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The Sunday Times

The Sunday Times is the largest-selling British national newspaper in the "quality press" market category.

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The Wood Demon (play)

The Wood Demon (Goblin, 1889) is a comedic play in four acts by Anton Chekhov.

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Tom Courtney

Thomas "Tom" William Courtney (born August 17, 1933) is a retired American athlete, winner of two gold medals at the 1956 Summer Olympics.

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Trevor Eve

Trevor John Eve (born 1 July 1951) is an English film and television actor.

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Uncle Vanya (1957 film)

Uncle Vanya is a 1957 American film adaptation of the play Uncle Vanya by Anton Chekhov.

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Uncle Vanya (1963 film)

Uncle Vanya is a 1963 British film adaptation of the work Uncle Vanya by Anton Chekhov.

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Uncle Vanya (1970 film)

Uncle Vanya (Dyadya Vanya) is a 1970 film adaptation of the Anton Chekhov play of the same title and directed by Andrey Konchalovskiy.

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Vanya on 42nd Street

Vanya on 42nd Street is a 1994 film directed by Louis Malle and screenplay by Andre Gregory.

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Vienna Festival

The Wiener Festwochen (Vienna Festival) is a cultural festival in Vienna that takes place every year for five or six weeks in May and June.

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Wallace Shawn

Wallace Michael Shawn (born November 12, 1943) is an American actor, voice actor, comedian, playwright and essayist.

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William Hurt

William McChord Hurt (born March 20, 1950) is an American actor.

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Zombie

A zombie (Haitian French: zombi, zonbi) is a fictional undead being created through the reanimation of a human corpse.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uncle_Vanya

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