National Theatre Live: Vanya

On film and stage, he’s played Hamlet, Ripley, Moriarty, and Hot Priest; here, he adds eight more roles to the canon, all within the same show. Andrew Scott plays the entire cast of Chekhov’s Uncle Vanya – including the urbane Serebryakov, his much younger second wife Yelena, his dowdy daughter Sonya who’s been stuck running the family estate, the doctor Sonya loves unrequitedly, and poor old Uncle Vanya. This radical rethink – adapted by Simon Stephens, directed by Sam Yates – first ran in 2024 in London, which is where this live taping derives from. An Off-Broadway stint concludes May 11, so the film version is almost certainly the closest you’ll get to the swooningly received production. – Kimberley Jones