Superior to any other Uncle Vanya I\'ve read or seen...
She is a resident playwright at the Signature Theatre..
Recent honors include a Guggenheim Fellowship, Steinberg Playwright Award and New York Drama Critics Circle Award. and in more than a dozen countries internationally.
Her work has been produced at more than a hundred theaters in the U.
S.
Annie Baker \'s plays include The Flick (The Susan Smith Blackburn Prize, Obie Award), The Aliens (Obie Award), Circle Mirror Transformation (Obie Award) and Body Awareness .
A critical hit in its sold-out Off-Broadway premiere, Baker\'s telling is a refreshingly intimate and modern treatment of a Chekhovian classic. - Marilyn Stasio, Variety Annie Baker, one of the most celebrated playwrights in the United States, lends her truthful observation and elegant command of the colloquial to Anton Chekhov\'s despairing masterpiece Uncle Vanya . - Jacob Gallagher-Ross, Village Voice More than a modern-dress treatment of a classic work, it\'s a fresh rethinking of the material from the perspective of a modern mind.
People are going to be talking about this one for years. - Charles Isherwood, New York Times Devastatingly beautiful...
Baker has given the play a natural but distinctly contemporary American sound.
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Free of the stilted or formal locutions that clutter up some of the more antique-sounding translations... - Clancy Martin, Paris Review Strikingly intimate...
Baker practices astonishing verbal magic over and over again.
Superior to any other Uncle Vanya I\'ve read or seen..
