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Blackstone Audio
presents

Sally Chamberlain • Sam Gray • Nicholas Kepros • Sonja Lanzener • Brian Murray • Ward Ohrman • Mary Lou Rosatto • Jeremiah Sullivan • Susan Willis
in
 The Hollywood Theater of the Ear
 production of

translated by
Lawrence Senelick		 produced and directed by
 Yuri Rasovsky
This production made possible in part by
The National Endowment for the Humanities

 

A retired professor has returned to his estate to live with his beautiful young wife, Yelena. The estate originally belonged to his first wife, now deceased; her mother and brother still live there and manage the farm. For many years the brother (Uncle Vanya) has sent the farm's proceeds to the professor, while receiving only a small salary himself. Sonya, the professor's daughter, who is about the same age as his new wife, also lives on the estate. The professor is pompous, vain, and irritable. He calls the doctor (Astrov) to treat his gout, only to send him away without seeing him. Astrov is an experienced physician who performs his job conscientiously, but has lost all idealism and spends much of his time drinking.

The presence of Yelena introduces sexual tension into the household. Astrov and Uncle Vanya both fall in love with Yelena; she spurns them both. Meanwhile, Sonya is in love with Astrov, who fails even to notice her. 

Anton Chekhov, one of the greatest playwrights of the 20th century, examines a family's lost opportunities, and the emptiness that can eat at the heart of "progress." Combining comedy and pathos, this modern classic conjures the timeless yearnings that fascinate us all as we contemplate what is and what might have been.


Nicholas Kepros

Nicholas Kepros:  Broadway:  You Never Can Tell and The Rehearsal at Roundabout; Timon of Athens, The Government Inspector, and Saint Joan (as the Inquisitor) at National Actors Theatre; Emperor Joseph in Amadeus, later playing Salieri; Execution of Justice.  Off-Broadway: Things You Shouldn’t Say Past Midnight (Promenade),Overtime (MTC), Rameau’s Nephew (CSC), The Millionairess (Sheridan Sq.), Othello (as Iago, Roundabout), Wars of the Roses (as Henry VI, NYSF); Troilus and Cressida, Andorra, The General from America, Don Juan (Theatre for a New Audience).  Regional: Measure for Measure (Angelo), School for Scandal (Joseph Surface; also on PBS “Theatre in America”), and King Lear (The Fool), at The Guthrie; Enemy of the People (Long Wharf), Lady from the Sea (Center Stage), Three Sisters (Hartford Stage), The Bundle (Yale Repertory), Narrow Road to the Deep North (Charles, Boston); Prospero in The Tempest, the title role in Macbeth, and Le Seigneur in The Double Inconstancy (McCarter, Princeton).  Over fifty roles in Shakespeare, including Hamlet (Phoenix Theatre, NY), Don Armado (Guthrie), and Richard II (Great Lakes SF).  Television: “Equal Justice,” “StarTrek,” “Golden Girls,” “Spenser: for Hire;” “Baby Talk”; TV films “Bartleby the Scrivener,” “Thornwell,” “Aaron Burr,” “Blood Ties,” “Witness to the Mob.”  Film:  “Amadeus,” “The Sicilian,” “Grace Quigley” (scenes with Katharine Hepburn), “Identity Crisis,” “Quiz Show”, “Hit and Runway,” ”The Associate.”

SEVEN CLASSIC PLAYS
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