Uncle Vanya, Harold Pinter Theatre review - a superlative company achievement
Ian Rickson's exemplary production relishes the nuances of Conor McPherson's adaptation Uncle Vanya must surely be the closest, the most essential of Chekhov's plays, its cast " just four main players who are caught up in its fraught emotional action, and four who are essentially support " a concentrated unit even by the playwright's lean standards. Its overlapping strands of unrequited love and desperate loneliness …