ABSTRACT
Now the fourth of Chekhov's five major full-length plays has achieved production in English - ‘Uncle Vanya’, put on at the Morosco yesterday afternoon for the first of Tuesday and Friday matinees. In advance it seemed to be a worthy adventure, soliciting sympathy rather than admiration. Now that it is an accomplished fact, however, it seems rather to be a thoroughly creditable enterprise. When you consider that ten years ago the playing of Chekhov in English was an art as yet undiscovered, nothing is quite so heartening and surprising as the spirit with which the ‘Three Sisters’, ‘The Cherry Orchard’, ‘The Seagull’ and ‘Uncle Vanya’ have suddenly come to life in New York. Of the principal works, only ‘Ivanoff’ remains unseen.
