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, the relationships start to shift and unspoken desires come to the surface.
Wanja falls in love with Jelena, who in turn raises the passion of the alcoholic village doctor Astrov, who is silently coveted by Sonja. To make matters worse, the professor to want to sell the estate and thus destroy Wanja's life's work.

uncle Wanja is a moving and witty lamentation about missed opportunities and transience. All characters crave love, but they crave in vain. They crave meaning, but their existence is without meaning. They are disappointed in their lives, but they fail to turn that life.

After previous successful staging of a seagull (2022) and De Kersentuin (2023), director Michel Sluysmans brings a contemporary interpretation of one of the Czechov's masterpieces again with uncle Wanja .