Eagerly anticipating our all becoming human together this autumn. My favorite thing about Uncle Vanya is how desperately human it is across the spectrum. If aliens came to Earth and asked for a representation of humanity, I might give them Vanya. Here, I would say, is a good idea of what people are. Angry, bitter, cynical, kind, ambitious, gentle, lovelorn, heartbroken, wasted, intelligent, suicidal, hopeful, faithful, submissive….here is every girl who ever loved a boy who didn’t love her back. Here is every aging man listless with depression and regret, and here is every weary laborer repressing and forgetting. And laughing about it.

I love the idea of having multiple people representing these characters because I think every feeling human in the audience will be representing them as well. As Cynthia and I slip in and out of Sonya, it will be as if we’re saying “this is me, too. but it’s also her. and you.”

Anyway. Humans.

also kittens