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Uncle Vanya - Spotlight on Plays - 11.19.2020

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Uncle Vanya - Spotlight on Plays - 11.19.2020#1
Posted: 11/21/20 at 8:52pm

Has anyone watched this play brought by Spotlight on Plays to benefit Actor's Fund? 

https://www.todaytix.com/x/nyc/shows/22427-Uncle-Vanya

It premiered two days ago and ends tomorrow.

I noticed the last revival on Broadway was back in 2000.

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Uncle Vanya - Spotlight on Plays - 11.19.2020#2
Posted: 11/22/20 at 10:35am

I watched it last night and surprisingly enjoyed it (didn't get sleepy nor felt bored at all)! I've never read the play nor have I ever seen a production of it. Anyway, below is a trailer from youtube. Very diverse cast. Ends this evening. If $5 is too much, I did a search on youtube and productions/films of the play are easily available on there. Uncle Vanya - Spotlight on Plays - 11.19.2020

 

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Uncle Vanya - Spotlight on Plays - 11.19.2020#3
Posted: 11/22/20 at 12:59pm
They set it up as charging $5 a piece for these and then go and just put them on YouTube for free. I’m fine with paying the $5 but it feels like a bait and switch - saying they’re only available for money and then just dropping them for free for everyone.
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Uncle Vanya - Spotlight on Plays - 11.19.2020#4
Posted: 11/22/20 at 2:44pm

I thought it was awful. No humor, no tension, entirely flat. Samira Wiley was the only person who seemed to be giving any thought to her performance. Constance Wu looked completely checked out whenever she wasn't speaking.

"You travel alone because other people are only there to remind you how much that hook hurts that we all bit down on. Wait for that one day we can bite free and get back out there in space where we belong, sail back over water, over skies, into space, the hook finally out of our mouths and we wander back out there in space spawning to other planets never to return hurrah to earth and we'll look back and can't even see these lives here anymore. Only the taste of blood to remind us we ever existed. The earth is small. We're gone. We're dead. We're safe." -John Guare, Landscape of the Body
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Uncle Vanya - Spotlight on Plays - 11.19.2020#5
Posted: 11/22/20 at 2:48pm

Yes, very farkakte. Fwiw, if the $5 is divided amongst the actors on the basis of merit, there are some who should get $0.01. I can't count how many times I have seen Vanya, but I have never seen one this phoned in.

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Uncle Vanya - Spotlight on Plays - 11.19.2020#6
Posted: 11/23/20 at 5:10pm

are people actually watching these, It seems like when they happen I see no one on social media talking about them

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Uncle Vanya - Spotlight on Plays - 11.19.2020#7
Posted: 11/23/20 at 5:13pm
Yeah I watch most of them. Cant say I’m ever “excited” about it or find myself looking forward to any of them but it’s all we have right now so I do watch some. But as I’ve said a lot, the majority of what’s worth watching is still coming from the UK, who continues to provide the content that American theater won’t.


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