Sporting floppy hair and a cravat, Redgrave captured the key fact about many Chekhov characters: that it is possible to be comic outside and tragic insideLaurence Olivier wasn't exactly famous for his generosity towards rival actors. But even he was moved to write in his autobiography that Michael Redgrave's Uncle Vanya was "the best performance I've ever seen in anything". Olivier may, of course, have been swayed by…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:00AM on May 18, 2015