World Premiere

VANYA 

Sam Holcroft

Inspired by Anton Chekhov's
UNCLE VANYA

Director Natalie Abrahami

26 Aug - 26 Sept 2009

VANYA Production Shot 1
VANYA Production Shot 2

VANYA - PRESS REVIEWS

TIME OUT - Caroline McGinn

“a touching emotional drama, rebuilt for four”

“designer Tom Scutt’s nifty wooden cube of a set”

http://www.timeout.com/london/theatre/event/157015/vanya

EVENING STANDARD - Henry Hitchings

“Tom Scutt’s ingenious design”

http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/theatre/show-23619222-details/Vanya/showReview.do

THEATREGUIDE LONDON - Gerold Berkowitz

“Much credit to director Natalie Abrahami for seeing the emotional depth and complexity of the play and guiding her actors toward expressing it, and to the cast themselves”

http://www.theatreguidelondon.co.uk/reviews/vanya09.htm

WHATSONSTAGE.COM - Michael Coveney

“a remarkable setting by Tom Scutt”

http://www.whatsonstage.com/reviews/theatre/london/ E8831251968265/Vanya.html

THE GUARDIAN - Michael Billington

“a fascinating commentary on Chekhov”

“an outstanding performance from Fiona Button as Sonya”

http://www.guardian.co.uk/stage/2009/sep/02/vanya-review

THE TIMES - Sam Marlowe

“An intelligent response to a classic, and an eloquent evocation of human anguish”

http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/ stage/theatre/article6820402.ece

BRITISH THEATRE GUIDE - Philip Fisher

“This highly atmospheric production benefits from thoughtful lighting courtesy of Mark Howland”

“VANYA deserves to fill the Gate both with Chekhov freaks and anyone else who might enjoy a very well-staged drama looking at contemporary life and love through a century-old microscope”

http://www.britishtheatreguide.info/reviews/vanya-rev.htm

THEATREWORLD - Lucy Popescu

“Natalie Abrahami’s beautiful staging”

http://www.theatreworldinternetmagazine.com/theatreworld/fri.htm

INDEPENDENT ON SUNDAY - Kate Bassett

“this young writer (Sam Holcroft) is one to watch”

http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/theatre-dance/reviews/vanya-gate-theatre-londonbrtoo-true-to-be-good-finborough-theatre-londonbrfathers-inside-soho-theatre-london-1783384.html

OTHER REVIEWS

http://www.thelondonpaper.com/going-out/event/vanya/gate-theatre/26/08/2009

http://www.thestage.co.uk/reviews/review.php/25453/vanya

http://www.musicomh.com/theatre/lon_vanya_0909.htm

http://www.culturewars.org.uk/index.php/site/article/tragic_trajectories/