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Vanya

Vanya

Rising playwright Sam Holcroft responds to Chekhov’s masterpiece Uncle Vanya. Directed by Gareth Nicholls. Read more …

Holcroft is inspired by the high emotion and the themes of unrequited love and a fragile of the social hierarchy in Chekhov’s play in her “intelligent response to a classic, and an eloquent evocation of human anguish”  The Times

Having debuted at the Traverse Theatre under Dominic Hill’s leadership, Holcroft was Writer-In-Residence at the National Theatre in 2013 and received the prestigious Windham Campbell prize in recognition of her emerging talent as a playwright.


The critical consensus

The end result is a self-lacerating circle of unrequited passion in an endless fog of ennui where sex and death are everything and nothing.

****(*)Neil Cooper, Coffee-Table Notes, 04/11/2015

I can’t help but feel Gareth Nicholls’ usual creativity has been hemmed in by the double blow of an unconvincing script and the sparseness of the Up Close ethos.

Christine Irvine, Exeunt, 05/11/2015

Where and when?

Citizens' Theatre, Glasgow from Saturday October 31, 2015, until Saturday November 7, 2015. More info: www.citz.co.uk

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