Everyone is famously in love with the wrong person in this sharp take on a classic
It’s as if we wanted to fire a bullet at the past – an exercise in futility, as Vanya himself discovers twice. Time doesn’t work that way.Playwright Joanna Murray-Smith believes (rightly) that such modernising is unnecessary in a good Chekhov production.
- ▪It’s as if we wanted to fire a bullet at the past – an exercise in futility, as Vanya himself discovers twice.
- ▪Time doesn’t work that way.Playwright Joanna Murray-Smith believes (rightly) that such modernising is unnecessary in a good Chekhov production.
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