Theater: HERE Arts Center / 145 Ave. of Americas, New York, NY, 10013
Synopsis:
I remember Uncle Vanya. He was...it was...so beautiful and sad, but...funny...yes...what a funny beautiful strange play. Yes, yes, that's it! Think you know Uncle Vanya? Look again. Target Margin Theater explores Anton Chekhov's tragicomical piece about memory, longing, and...what was I saying?
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May 4, 2012: Hey, guys, what say we have a Chekhov slumber party? We’ll put on our pajamas, open a few bottles of vodka and sit around and talk about how hopeless our lives are — maybe with Russian accents. Come on, it’ll be fun.
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May 4, 2012: The first thing you notice is the husky brown bear hunched over on all fours, as if he (or maybe it’s a she) is sniffing out something about 2 feet off the ground.
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April 30, 2012: There are moments in director David Herskovits' new production of Anton Chekhov's "Uncle Vanya" that crackle with emotional lucidity. Conversely, other sequences border on surreal abstraction as this new, company-created version of the 1899 classic meditates on its history. The daring combination of styles should likely prove enormously satisfying for audiences familiar with the text but may be a bit opaque for first-timers.
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April 28, 2012: It is said quite often that Anton Chekhov believed he was writing comedies and the great beacon of realistic method acting Konstantin Stanislavski thought he was writing tragedies. I am not alone in believing that the truth lies somewhere in between, which is especially obvious today. Having said this, Uncle Vanya is explicitly labeled a comedy by Chekhov's own subtitle, though it is a different kind of humor than one usually sees today.
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May 1, 2012: Since productions of Anton Chekhov's Uncle Vanya come along regularly, you can't blame Target Margin artistic director David Herskovits for trying something different in his revival, now on view at HERE.
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