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Theatre

Kit-car Chekhov: Uncle Vanya at the Almeida reviewed

Plus: feminist revisionism in Nell Gwynn at the Apollo Theatre

27 February 2016

9:00 AM

27 February 2016

9:00 AM

Uncle Vanya

Almeida, until 26 March

Nell Gwynn

Apollo, until 30 April

Director Robert Icke has this to say of Chekhov’s greatest masterpiece: ‘Let the electricity of now flow into the old thing and make it function.’ He uproots ‘the old thing’ from its natural setting and drops it down in no-man’s land. It all feels modern. Aircraft buzz in the heavy summer air.

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