Uncle Vanya

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Director
Andrej Nosov

Dramaturg
Mina Ćirić

Cast
Nemanja Oliverić (Uncle Vanya), Branko Cvejić (Serebryakov), Katarina Marković (Yelena Andreyevna), Mina Obradović (Sonya), Stefan Bundalo (Astrov), Monika Boldovina Bugle (Marina), Dojna Andrejević Petrović (Maria Vasilyevna) and Jovan Jelisavčić (Telegin).

Scenography nad costume
Selena Orb

Music
Draško Adžić

Executive producer
Selena Pleskonjić

Photograpghy
Ružica Milovanović

“Uncle Vanya” premiered at Vršac Autumn Festival on 15th November 2019.

In this modern reading of “Uncle Vanya”, Chekhov’s atmosphere of heat and steam is underlined as a perfectly good excuse for not acting. The visit of the owner of the property, Serebryakov, causes laziness – everyone stops doing their usual jobs to please him, and the presence of his wife, Yelena Andreyevna and her desire for change, forces them to reconsideration and reminds them of missed chances for a better, more fulfilled life.

Everything takes place in one day, so the tension due to waiting for the explanation of Serebryakov’s visit is even greater than in the original text. The characters deal differently with the professor’s visit, which causes a state of emergency on the property. But mostly, they can’t wait to simply be able to “have lunch again like the whole normal world”. The play problematizes the desire for change, which has been proven as an excuse to never change anything, through a series of successfully set situations.

Word of Director

Summer games. As the flamingo replaced big dreams, waiting became the main occupation. Love. Courage. Gratitude. Illusions . Power. Family. Pleasure. Fight. Hate. Revolution. Giving up. Work. Love. Work should be done. It’s boring. You should calm people down. You are unbearable again. Vanja has the best intentions. When there is no real life, one must live from illusion. Or – how Sonja learned to swim. Congratulations to the Professor. He left anyway.

Word of Dramaturg

Time: Chekhov’s present. Differs from Chekhov’s past only in that there is a fridge now instead of a samovar. Place: a rural property where everyone knows each other, everyone knows everything and together they cultivate their small (dis)order. We examine the limits of laziness, we collect excuses (not) to change. People are ready for anything to protect their comfort zone. We don’t judge people, we want to understand them. Some had a desire to help humanity, and some had an idea of how to help themselves. What happened? Whoever learns to understand Chekhov’s characters, has found a way out of Chekhov’s environment.

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