His plays include The Designated Mourner, Aunt Dan and Lemon, and Grasses of a Thousand Colors ; he also co-wrote the screenplay for My Dinner with Andre with Andre Gregory, and scripted Vanya on 42nd Street, a film adaptation of Anton Chekov's play Uncle Vanya.

It includes the Thyatian Empire, which could be compared to Byzantine Empire ; the Grand Duchy of Karameikos ( which includes the town of Threshold, the default setting of many classic D & D adventures ), comparable to medieval southeastern Europe ; the Principalities of Glantri, which is similar to medieval western Europe, ruled by wizard-princes ; the Ethengar Khanate, a Mongol-like society ; the merchant-run Republic of Darokin, which is based somewhat loosely on the mercantile states of Medieval Italy ; the Emirates of Ylaruam which have an Arabic flavor ; the Heldannic Territories, ruled by an order of religious Knights devoted to the Immortal Vanya, similar to the Teutonic Knights ; the Atruaghin Clans, which have an Amerindian feel ; the nation of Sind, based on India during the rule of the Mughals ; the Northern Reaches Kingdoms of Ostland, Vestland, the Soderfjord Jarldoms, based on Scandinavian kingdoms at various periods of history ; the Dwarven nation of Rockhome ; the elven Kingdom of Alfheim ; the Halfling lands of the Five Shires ; and the Alphatian Empire, ruled by wizards and other spellcasters.

The word " vanya " in Quenya is also listed as a verb meaning " to leave / depart / vanish ", which may have either arisen due to the almost complete disappearance of this clan early on in Elven history, or given rise to the noun " Vanya ( r )" in later times.

After a series of dramatic roles on stage, most notably Vanya and Macbeth, Pryce decided he wanted to do musicals after seeing his friend Patti LuPone in the original London production of Les Misérables.

Briers was a member of Kenneth Branagh's Renaissance Theatre Company, taking on classical and Shakespearean roles including Malvolio in Twelfth Night and the title roles in King Lear and Uncle Vanya.

Weaving completed filming his role on the project in September 2010 and returned to Sydney to prepare for Uncle Vanya.

In March, the Sydney Theatre Company and John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts announced that STC's 2010 production of Chekhov's Uncle Vanya would be reprised in Washington, D. C. during the month of August In April, months of speculation finally ended when Weaving appeared on The Hobbit's New Zealand set, shortly before a production spokesman officially confirmed the actor's return as Elrond in Peter Jackson's two-film prequel to Lord of the Rings.

Anton Chekhov in his plays The Seagull, Uncle Vanya and Three Sisters describes the tortured emotional states of doctors who at some point in their careers have turned their back on conscience.

His later films include Pretty Baby ( 1978 ), Atlantic City ( 1981 ), My Dinner with Andre ( 1981 ), Crackers ( 1984 ), Alamo Bay ( 1985 ), Damage ( 1992 ) and Vanya on 42nd Street ( 1994, an adaptation of Anton Chekhov's play Uncle Vanya ) in English ; Au revoir, les enfants ( 1987 ) and Milou en Mai ( May Fools in the U. S., 1990 ) in French.

* Vanya on 42nd Street ( 1994 )

* Vanya on 42nd Street

She also appeared many times on film and television, most notably in the films The Captive Heart ( 1946 ), Tom Jones ( 1963 ), Georgy Girl ( 1966, opposite her daughter, Lynn ), Out of Africa ( 1985 ), Uncle Vanya ( 1991 ), and the television series The Jewel in the Crown ( 1984 ).

In the summer of 2008, Dinklage performed the title role in Uncle Vanya, directed by his wife Erica Schmidt, in Bard College's annual Bard SummerScape, the Upstate New York summer stage on the Annandale-on-Hudson, New York, campus.

Her performance was widely acclaimed on both sides of the Atlantic and garnered her an Olivier Award nomination for Uncle Vanya.

All three had appeared in the 1994 film Vanya on 42nd Street, directed by Louis Malle.

From April to May 2012, Dervla appeared on stage at the Chichester Festival Theatre in a Jeremy Herrin production of Uncle Vanya.

In 1994, he played Serybryalzov in Louis Malle's acclaimed independent feature, Vanya on 42nd Street.

Though never publicly performed, it was released as the film " Vanya on 42nd Street " by Gregory and Louis Malle.

Gregory also appeared as himself in Malle's film Vanya on 42nd Street, which documented his Uncle Vanya production.

At the time Vanya on 42nd Street was filmed, the theatre had been abandoned for over ten years and was in a state of severe disrepair.

* Vanya on 42nd Street also features several actors known to the New York stage, including George Gaynes ( also recognizable from the hit TV series Punky Brewster ), Larry Pine, Phoebe Brand, Brooke Smith, and Lynn Cohen.

* Criterion Collection Essay " Vanya on 42nd Street: An American Vanya " by Steven Vineberg

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The theatre, which had recently been used as a filming location for the movie Vanya on 42nd Street, was dilapidated ; it would take several years, and millions of dollars, to restore it to its original usage and grandeur.

The drama about a closeted gay construction worker in New York City was nominated for the Grand Jury Prize at the 1998 Sundance Film Festival and received the Festival's Cinematography award for the camera work of Declan Quinn ( Leaving Las Vegas, Vanya on 42nd Street, Kama Sutra: A Tale of Love ).

Additional credits include 2x4, ( which won him the Cinematography Award at the 1998 Sundance Film Festival ), Vanya on 42nd Street, Leaving Las Vegas, One True Thing, In America, Cold Creek Manor, The Lucky Ones, Rachel Getting Married, The Private Lives of Pippa Lee and The Reluctant Fundamentalist ( 2012 ).

He went on to act in The Relapse 1950 ( Sir Tunbelly Clumsey ); The Taming of the Shrew 1951 ( Grumio ); The Way of the World 1954 ( Petulant ); The Carefree Tree 1955 ( The Sixth Son ); King Lear 1956 ( Duke of Cornwall ); Mister Johnson 1956 ( Gollup ); Saint Joan 1956 ( The Inquisitor ); Protective Custody 1956 ( Dr. Steidl ); Oscar Wilde 1957 ( Oscar Wilde ); The Golden Six 1958 ( Tiberius ); A Man for All Seasons 1961 ( Cardinal Wolsey ); Andorra 1963 ( pub keeper ); The Seagull 1964 ( Sorin ); The Crucible 1964 ( Danforth ); Baker Street 1965 ( Moriarty ); The Royal Hunt of the Sun 1965 ( Miguel Estete ); Ring Round the Moon 1966 ( Messerchann ); Those That Play the Clowns 1966 ( Henning ); Breakfast at Tiffany's 1966 ( Rusty Trawler ); The Sorrows of Frederick 1967 ; The Bench 1968 ( Phillipi ); Uncle Vanya 1971 ( Serebryakov ); The Jockey Club Stakes 1973 ( Sir Dymock Blackburn ); The Dogs of Pavlov 1974.

In Aman Finrod of the Noldor had loved a Vanya named Amarië ; she is cited as one reason why Finrod never took a wife in Beleriand.

* Vanya ( Ваня ), a male diminutive of the Russian, Bulgarian and other Slavic given name Ivan, meaning " God is gracious ".

Vanya is also used as a female given name in Bulgaria.

Ivan Fyodorovich Karamazov, variously called Vanya, Vanka, and Vanechka, Ivan is the middle son and first by Fyodor's second marriage.

Uncle Vanya is the brother of Rukov's father.

( The name " Uncle Vanya " is a nod to the book by Chekhov )

Aivazovsky is referenced in Anton Chekhov's play Uncle Vanya.

The name Lenya is a combination of the names of his two sons Levi and Vanya.

Uncle Vanya ( – Dyadya Vanya, literally Uncle Jonny ) is a play by the Russian playwright Anton Chekhov.

Uncle Vanya is unique among Chekhov's major plays because it is essentially an extensive reworking of his own play published a decade earlier, The Wood Demon .< ref name = act >

It was in those woodlands and the forests of his holidays in Ukraine that he had first nurtured his ecological passion ( this passion is reflected in the character of Dr. Astrov, whose love of the forests is his only peace, in his earlier play Uncle Vanya ).

* Glinka's A Life for the Tsar: " Vanya " is sung by a contralto

The film is an intimate, interpretive performance of the play Uncle Vanya by Anton Chekhov based on the English translation by David Mamet.

He is sent by Bishop Vanya to track down Joram in the Technologists ' village so that Joram can be captured.

Radisovik is the Cardinal of Sharakan, who sees the current bishop Vanya as a corrupt man.