Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike
Stanley Industrial Alliance Stage, 2750 Granville, VancouverThe Arts Club Theatre Company presents the rollicking winner of the 2013 Tony Award for best play. Christopher Durang’s witty mash-up of Chekhov characters and smartphones is a delightful new farce for our hyperconnected era. Middle-aged siblings Vanya and Sonia live an angst-ridden, melancholic existence on their family farm. Housecleaner-cum-soothsayer Cassandra, whose hilariously ambiguous prophecies keep them befuddled, provides the only break from monotony. That is, until their glamorous movie-star sister, Masha, swans in for a surprise visit—along with her hunky 20-something boy toy, Spike.