Review of Uncle Vanya at Barrington Stage Company, Pittsfield

August 12, 2007 performance reviewed by Frances Benn Hall.
How to produce Chekhov’s plays has been controversial ever since, a hundred years ago Stanislavsky at the Moscow Arts Theatre declared them to be tragedies and Chekhov objected to taking them too seriously and insisted they were comedies.
The basic problem, of course, is that they are both, [...]