Why did turn-of-the-20th century Russian playwright Anton Chekhov name “Uncle Vanya” after his play’s most unhappy, most aimless, most pitiful and self-pitying character? As Vanya, actor Hugh Bonneville (the patriarch in “Downton Abbey”) has the answer. In this relatively new translation by Irish playwright Conor McPherson now at Berkeley Repertory Theatre in a coproduction […]
