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‘Uncle Vanya’ in four acts, four rooms

Building plays vital role in adaptation

By Joel Brown

 |  Globe Correspondent  

  December 23, 2011

Turns out it’s not that far from here to 19th-century Russia. Beginning next Thursday, the Apollinaire Theatre Company will use the high ceilings and architectural details of its 1906 building to its advantage, turning the Chelsea Theatre Works into a fading 1890s country estate for Craig Lucas’s adaptation of Chekhov’s “Uncle Vanya.’’ Each of the four acts will take place in a different space in the grand but weary former Odd Fellows Hall, so the audience for each performance has been capped at 30.

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