After five years, and inspired by recent events, we at Eagle Project, in collaboration with Double Down, felt the need to try something a little different.

Uncle Abram – A Reconstructed Uncle Vanya is an American retelling of the Russian classic set in the Reconstruction South. Placed in a former plantation in south-central Missouri, this adaptation combines Native American and African American influences that both heighten and intensify the original Chekhovian text.

The backdrop being one of the most progressive periods in American history instills a hope of what is possible, along with the awareness of the delicacy of social progress.

Uncle Abram – A Reconstructed Uncle Vanya awakens our spirit for a better tomorrow, and tests our fortitude by begging the question, “What are you willing to sacrifice to change the world?”

Uncle Abram: A Reconstructed Uncle Vanya could just as easily have been named “Uncle Vanya Gets Woke”. Set on a plantation in south-central Missouri, this adaptation by Ryan Victor “Little Eagle” Pierce visits the residents in the Reconstruction period after the end of the Civil War in 1865. The complicated nuclear family consists of plantation owner/former master Professor Jonathan Morrison (Mike Callahan), his new and younger wife Hannah (Kelly Anne), his grown daughter Esther (Jackie Torres), and her uncle Abram (Tony White). Abram’s mother (Emilie Bonsant) is also in residence, as is the manservant Jim (Omar Gonzalez) and Nanny Almira (Brenda Crawley). Also on the estate lives Jean “Red Dog” Vieux (Abby Ybarra), a Native American man whose family lived on the land til white settlers took it from them and then used slave labor from the African-Americans to work the land for their own profit. The next-door neighbor is Dr. Joseph “Red Elk” Hamilton (Kahlil Garcia), whose way of flirting with Hannah is to invite her and Esther to see his 80 acres of trees. That is not a euphemism for anything: he really loves forests and nature, and at one point illustrates to Hannah the decimation …Read more