Tea's cold, lunch is late and the great Professor has turned out to be a fraud - for Uncle Vanya, life has gone wonky, it's gone to hell.

Only one thing can save him - a glamorous woman's love. But she's not interested either. And what's worse, she's married to the Professor.

Samuel Adamson’s new version of Anton Chekhov's Uncle Vanya - a dark and funny exploration of cross-purposed love, bitter jealousy and a dysfunctional family - opened at West Yorkshire Playhouse, Leeds, in February 2015.

Chekhov’s darkly funny tragedy about crumbling lives and crumbling meaning, played on the Quarry Stage, Leeds Playhouse’s largest, against an epic forest of telegraph poles, on a vast plinth of mud and red carpets, designed by Dick Bird. The house was in the forest, the forest in the house.

Uncle Vanya David Ganly

Sonya Dorothea Myer-Bennett

Astrov Ryan Kiggell

Yelena Georgia Rylance

Professor Serebryakov John Bett

Waffles Graham Turner

Marina Anne Lacey

Maria Eve Pearce

Direction Mark Rosenblatt

Set Dick Bird

Lighting Sinead McKenna

Sound & Composition Dave Price

Movement Al Nedjari

Photography by Ant Robling