Daniel Veronese
Uncle Vanya
UK premiere, Brighton Festival Exclusive
Daniel Veronese's contemporary reworking of Chekhov's Uncle Vanya unfolds amid the ruined scenery of his imagined prequel Women Dreamt Horses (also premiering in the Corn Exchange 21-23 May). Here Chekhov's 'lost generation' are Veronese's predecessors - émigrés who came to Argentina a century ago disillusioned with Europe and dreaming of a better future. Languishing in the New World, four men and three women are hopelessly weighed down by their unimpressive lives: broken dreams, frustrated loves and wasted opportunities...
For Veronese the classics deal with fundamental themes in human survival. In this light the works of Chekhov are strikingly contemporary. With the same minimalist stage aesthetic and taut emotional intensity that has defined much of his work, Veronese cuts straight to the heart of these universal Chekovian truths.
Playwright, director, actor and author, Daniel Veronese founded the acclaimed Argentine theatre group El Periférico de Objectos in 1989. His shows and artistic interventions have been performed around the world, and between 1999 and 2005 he was curator of the Festival Internacional de Buenos Aires.
See Women Dreamt Horses and Veronese's Uncle Vanya back-to-back for the first time ever on 23 May, click here for more details and booking.
Performed in Spanish with English subtitles
The actors go direct to the nerve, to the living flesh. There are no silences, no pauses, no rests: it is all culminating points, clashes, conflicts.' El País
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