Uncle Vanya (Fennec Fox Productions)

Location: O'Reilly Theatre, Keble College

Ticket Link: http://www.ticketsource.co.uk/fennec-fox-productions

‘There’s a dark, demon thing – desperate to destroy – lurking in all of you. Nothing is spared. Not trees, not birds, not women, not each other…’

On the edge of what’s left of a forest, Sonya is waiting for her life to start. Her Uncle Johnny is waiting for his life to end. In the meantime, they work and work and work. What else can they do?

Performed in Robert Icke’s lucid, luminous translation, Anton Chekhov’s tragicomic drama asks what happens to us as the environment breaks down around us. How can we cope knowing we’ve done it to ourselves?

After acclaimed productions of Lucy Kirkwood’s The Children and Ella Hickson’s The Writer, Fennec Fox Productions returns to tackle Chekhov’s ecological masterpiece.

Content warnings: gunshots, use of a replica firearm, references to suicide and alcoholism