Winner of the 2013 Tony Award for Best Play
The Tennessee Women's Theater Project bring you the regional debut of the Tony Award-winning comedy play Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike. Written by American playwright Christopher Durang, the king of absurdist comedy, the show premiered in 2012 at New Jersey's McCarter Theatre, going on to become an Off-Broadway sensation a year later. Bolstered by critical acclaim and commercial success, the production made its Broadway transfer in 2013.
What is Vanya and Sonya and Masha and Spike about?
Widely lauded as a brilliant, off-kilter adaptation of Anton Chekhov's themes without required knowledge of his work, the story follows brother and sister Vanya and Sonia who live a quiet life in the farmhouse they grew up in. Constantly arguing and complaining, the pair's comfortable yet stale routine is rudely interrupted by the arrival of their volatile movie star sister Masha and her inappropriate boy toy Spike...