Though it sounds like a grim ordeal, "Vanya" is actually winsome and quirky and oh so very sensitive, a rare and somber and poignant production that lingers on your conscience long after the bows finish.īluff and impish actor George Saulnier is Vanya, an aging farmer harvesting a midlife existential crisis in his too large and too loud country household. Mere minutes into "Uncle Vanya" at Cutting Ball Theatre a character declares, "Life is boring, it's stupid, it stinks," and it's just possible those seven words really do say it all.Ĭutting Ball opens its new season with this Anton Chekhov play about the wages of cynicism, translated by Paul Schmidt and directed by Paige Rogers, who turn it into a passionate and free flowing tribute to the cares of careless people. George Saulnier in "Uncle Vanya" through October 21.
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