This translation of “Uncle Vanya,” a collaboration between playwright Richard Nelson and the veteran team of Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky, had its premiere in a magnificent production at San Diego’s Old Globe in 2018 that Nelson directed himself. The laughter, however, subsides into something more somber and spiritual. But this being tragicomedy and Vanya being a lousy marksman, the play doesn’t veer into tragedy. This daisy chain of desire leaves everyone at a loss, but it’s not until Serebryakov proposes that the estate be put up for sale that Vanya, feeling betrayed by the callousness of his brother-in-law, reaches for a gun.
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