Review: Uncle Vanya by The Classic Theatre of San Antonio

by Michael Meigs
Published on August 24, 2009

John Minton gives Vanya the boisterous emotions of a delayed adolescent, driven into a froth by the arrival of Yelena.

San Antonio's Classic Theatre has opened its second season with a beautifully designed, perceptive and subtly paced production of one of my favorite works, Chekhov's Uncle Vanya.That's the shorthand version of the title. It was published as Uncle Vanya - Scenes from Country Life. Although at the heart of it there sits an eternally frustrated love triangle -- Vanya and Dr. Astrov both yearning for the unhappily married Yelena -- the play contains much, much more.These scenes …

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