Uncle Vanya: Scenes from a Country Life at Parkview Event Room, Johnson-Springview Park

UNCLE VANYA: Scenes from a Country Life by Anton Chekhov (translated by Marian Fell, with small adaptations by T.S. Forsyth) is a famous classic performed on renowned stages throughout the world. The play is a tragicomedy that explores the humor and pathos of a dysfunctional extended family's existential angst. OR, as Forsyth likes to put it, a tragicomedy with:

• Love Triangles
• Dysfunctional Family Strife
• A Midlife Crisis
• and too much VODKA!

SEE THE PROMO VIDEO: https://youtu.be/zRb2KKG_Qe4

THE STORY

An elderly professor and his glamorous, much younger second wife, Yelena, visit his daughter Sonia's rural estate that supports the couple's urban lifestyle. Sonia (who inherited the estate from her mother, the professor's first wife) and her Uncle Vanya have been working for many years to keep the estate going to supplement the lavish urban life of the professor and his young wife. Yelena's presence is a catalyst that awakens once-dormant hopes in Sonia, who yearns for Dr. Astrov, as well as romantic desires in Uncle Vanya and Dr. Astrov, both of whom fall under Yelena's spell to comic effect. All of this heightens Sonia, Vanya and Astrov's ennui regarding their provincial country life, often to humorous effect. Matters are brought to a crisis when the professor announces his intention to sell the estate, Vanya and Sonya’s home, with a view to investing the proceeds to achieve a higher income for himself and his wife.

THE EVENT

• Gift basket drawings for a wide variety of gift cards, service vouchers and merchandise from area businesses (Pottery World, Aqua Life Aquarium, Round Table Pizza, Lone Buffalo Vineyards and more)
• Live Folk Music by musician Craig Dunlap, who portrays Telegin (Waffles) onstage, and offstage performs scenic underscoring.