![]() ![]() This one is no exception, and it is a lot for an audience to absorb. Though Chekhov insisted that his plays were comedies - and humorous moments do occur - they brim with despair. At least four of the nine characters long for someone who doesn’t want them, and nearly everyone complains of boredom, unfulfilled ambitions or physical ailments. In a departure from the more traditional staging, which puts some space between actors and audience, Stephen Hamilton, the director, is presenting an in-your-lap experience of Anton Chekhov’s classic play about unrequited love and chronic crankiness. ![]() Audience members travel down the center aisle of the lovely jewel-box theater in East Hampton and climb a stairway to the stage, where they find seating for 55 viewers. The prelude to the production of “Uncle Vanya” at the John Drew Theater at Guild Hall is dramatic in its own way. ![]()
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