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/