Jack Shepherd and Rebecca Night complete the cast of Anya Reiss’s brand new adaptation of Uncle Vanya, premiering on Wednesday 8 October 2014 at St. James Theatre. Shepherd will play Serebryakov and Night will take on the role of Yelena, alongside John Hannah’s Vanya.
Jack Shepherd was most recently seen onstage in Home at the Arcola Theatre and his numerous television credits includeThe Politician’s Husband, Waking the Dead and Wycliffe. Rebecca Night joins the cast after recent roles in Sky One’sStarlings and the Old Vic’s A Flea in Her Ear.
A respected professor returns to his farmland which has been managed without him for many years. He brings with him a new, beautiful, young wife. Their arrival turns the lives of the residents and his family upside down forcing everyone to re-examine their choices. Old wounds are reopened, passions are awakened and thwarted ambitions bubble to the surface, threatening the lives of everyone involved.
