Uncle Vanya Ouch!</poem> After a major zombie outbreak on the island of Oʻahu, a television network has turned Kennedy Theatre into a studio for their new reality show "Theatre Masterpieces and Zombies". The major challenge for the contestants on this show is to survive their performance of a classic play while fending off zombies released onto the stage by the popular host. After the success of last month's "The Tempest and Zombies", tonight's show will feature a classic example of Russian Realism, Anton Chekhov's "Uncle Vanya" (1897). "Uncle Vanya and Zombies" premiered in November 2012 at Kennedy Theatre in Honolulu. Over the
The Seagull "Hamlet"). There are many allusions to Shakespearean plot details as well. For instance, Treplyov seeks to win his mother back from the usurping older man Trigorin much as Hamlet tries to win Queen Gertrude back from his uncle Claudius. "The Seagull" was first translated into English for a performance at the Royalty Theatre, Glasgow, in November 1909. Since that time, there have been numerous translations of the text—from 1998 to 2004 alone there were 25 published versions. In the introduction of his own version, Tom Stoppard wrote: "You can't have too many English Seagulls: at the intersection of all of