Uncle Vanya: A New Version by Annie Baker Anton Chekhov
Publisher: Theatre Communications Group

The sad implication here being: the prospect of closeness in either case is equally absurd. Apr 14, 2014 - Baker's previous plays, seen in New York to wide acclaim, have included Body Awareness, Circle Mirror Transformation, The Aliens and a new adaptation of Uncle Vanya. Well, let's start with the brilliant playwright Annie Baker. "Uncle Vanya" is playing at New York's City Center through July 28. I don't think Chekhov ever used the term "creep" to describe his characters, and yet that perfect word choice is one of the little joys that makes Annie Baker's adaptation of Uncle Vanya so enjoyable to watch. But "Vanya"'s inactive plot continues to pose a tempting challenge to directors: do me differently. Jun 25, 2012 - Where to even begin when speaking about the extraordinary production on Uncle Vanya playing at Soho Rep. The Massachusetts-born playwright is 33. Jun 18, 2012 - THEATER: Uncle Vanya. Jul 23, 2012 - Most memorable was Annie Baker and Sam Gold's intensely intimate Soho Rep staging, which captured the play's starkness brilliantly, and delivered a punch to the gut that this version did not. Jun 18, 2012 - It's not the thunderclap of tragedy that plagues his characters, after all, but nagging, incurable heart cramps. Apr 14, 2014 - Baker's plays include Circle Mirror Transformation, The Aliens and Body Awareness and an adaptation of Uncle Vanya. Mar 21, 2013 - In the last five years, Annie Baker has distinguished herself among young playwrights by zeroing in on the minute particulars of mundane lives and mining them for drama with a richness that bears comparison to Beckett (with whom she shares a Baker's latest, The Flick (at Playwrights Horizons through April 7), depicts a decrepit, barely populated movie theater in Bumfuck, Connecticut, one of the last in the country to project celluloid rather than digital films.