Sid talks with Avra Sidiropoulou, a brilliant director who has staged plays all over the world. A professor at the Open University of Cyprus, she has written extensively about the contemporary theatre—indeed, theatre people have found essential her book Directions for Directors (2018). With a concern both for her actors and audience, she speaks, among many other works, in wonderful detail about her recent recasting of Chekhov’s Uncle Vanya in light of Stanislavski’s 1889 production for the Moscow Arts Theatre, as well as own adaptation Enter Hamlet.