Ekaterinburg is the fourth-largest city in Russia and the administrative centre of Sverdlovsk Oblast, located at the Ural Mountains. We often bring our productions there. This time we return to Ural with the famous ‘Uncle Vania’ after Anton Chekhov directed be Rimas Tuminas. Actually, our ‘Uncle Vania’ comes to Ekaterinburg for the third time because it’s highly demanded by spectators.

Russian critics don’t have a tradition to give ‘stars’ to a show but the Guardian (London, UK) rated ‘Uncle Vania’ as 5-star production.

Mercurially brilliant import from Moscow’s Vakhtangov theatre. British Chekhov tends to offer variations on the realism of Stanislavski. This dazzling production by Rimas Tuminas is in a wholly different tradition: that of the Russian director Meyerhold, who evolved a system of acting based on sports, acrobatics and clownish grotesquerie. (Michael Billington)

Cast for Ekaterinburg: Sergey Makovetsky, Vladimir Simonov, Lyudmila Maksakova, Vladimir Vdovichenkov, Anna Dubrovskaya, Eugenia Kregzhde, Yury Kraskov, Liubov Korneva, Vitalys Semenovs.