Play review - "Uncle Vanya" by Chekov

My favourite of the Chekovs I have read, it's really brilliant - the edition I read also had the benefit of a good, non-clunky translation. It perhaps as the most robust on screen drama, full of knock down arguments, especially between Vanya and the professor, and for some reason the chats about wasted lives seem to hit home more and the romantic love plots (people loving people who don't love them back, typical for Chekov) are very strongly defined, and moving. Many memorable characters: bitter Vanya, the egotistical professor, his younger wife, the doctor who is a bit of a conservationist commie, the plain daughter who loves the doctor. Impossible love, wasted lifes and estrangement - love it.