UNCLE VANYA

In Chekov's Uncle Vanya, a family lives in a country home, working all their hours to support their favoured 'son in law', who is called Serebryakov, the widower of the family's daughter. Vanya, Sophie, Mother and the old family nurse live in the countryside ekeing out an existence and sending the rest to their son in law in the city. When the son in law comes to visit, he brings his new wife with him Helena, a beautiful but insipid woman who is many years his junior. The son in law is a university professor, and he has some fame, but there is tension between the family, especially since Vanya has a crush on Helena, whereas she and the family doctor Michael Astrov (played by Trevor Eve) have taken a shine to each other. It all comes to a head, when Serebryakov decides he want to sell the country home where the family ilve, to pay for his life in the city, without seeing the damage he has done and the ungratefulness of it all.

Trevor Eve plays the part of 'Astrov' in Uncle Vanya and was trained at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art where he won the Bancroft Gold Medal. He has worked extensively in theatre performing at the Royal National Theatre in Inadmissable Evidence and Man Beast and Virtue; A Winter's Tale at the Young Vic, High Society at the Victoria Palace, The Genius at the Royal Court, Filumrna at the Lyric Theatre, John, Paul, George and Bert at the Liverpool Everyman/Lyric and Children of a Lesser God at the Albery Theatre which won him both the Olivier Award and Variety Club of Great Britain Award for Best Actor. He appeared, most recently, on television in the BAFTA award winning The Politician's Wife. His other credits include Black Easter, Murder in Mind, The President's Child, A Doll's House, Parnell and the Englishwoman, A Sense of Guilt, Shadow on the Sun, Flipside, A Wreath of Roses, Shadow Chasers, The Corsican Brothers, A Brother's Tale, Jamaica Inn, London Belongs to Me and Hindle Wakes. In 1980 he won the Variety Club Award for his performance in the series Shoestring. He has just completed filming Stephen Poliakof's The Tribe. His other film credits include Pshychotherapy, Aspen Extreme, The Knight's Tale, Scandal, Dracula and trilogy. Trevor's production company has just aquired the rights to The Ghost Road, a Pat Barker's 1995 Booker Prize winning novel. He is developing it into a feature film with a screenplay by Charles Wood.

September 1996