Oom Wanja - Toneelgroep Maastricht

Theater en toneel

Uncle Wanja and his niece Sonja have been working hard all their lives on the farming estate of Sonja's father, who works as a professor in the big city. When the professor returns to the estate after his retirement with his much younger second wife Jelena, relationships begin to shift and unspoken desires come to the surface.
Wanja falls in love with Jelena, who in turn arouses the passion of the alcoholic village doctor Astrov, who is secretly desired by Sonja. To make matters worse, the professor announces that he wants to sell the estate and thus destroy Wanja's life's work.

Uncle Wanja is a moving and witty lament about missed opportunities and transience. All the characters yearn for love, but they yearn in vain. They yearn for meaning, but their existence is meaningless. They are disappointed in their lives but fail to turn that life around.

After previous successful productions of Een Meeuw (2022) and De Kersentuin (2023), director Michel Sluysmans once again presents a contemporary interpretation of one of Chekhov's masterpieces with Oom Wanja.