Wessex's Grove's Benjamin Lowy and Emily Vaughan Barratt speak about Cate Blanchett's 'The Seagull' and more.
'...Taking Simon Stephens’ play, Vanya [based on Chekhov’s Uncle Vanya], starring Andrew Scott, zipping through multiple roles, from the West End to Broadway, was both an artistic and a commercial success, with Scott winning possibly every award going in London and New York. “I just think it’s impossible not to see him in that and not realise that he’s the best actor of his generation,” argues Vaughan-Barratt.
“Also, when we were in New York, particularly, you get a list every morning of the notables that are coming that night, and every day we’d look at that list of big name directors and actors, and wonder how we’re going to fit them into that space,” she exclaims.
Both Lowy and Vaughan-Barratt note that Scott, Stephens, and director Sam Yates, spent two years developing Vanya...'