At sea, navy stops a lot of corrupt drama (5,5)
I believe the answer is:
uncle vanya
'lot of corrupt drama' is the definition.
The definition suggests a singular noun which matches the answer.
'at sea navy stops a' is the wordplay.
I cannot quite see how this works, but
an anagram of 'navy' is 'vany' which is located in the answer.
'a' is present in the answer.
The remaining letters 'uncle' is a valid word which might be clued in a way I don't see.
This may be the basis of the clue (or it may be nonsense).
Can you help me to learn more?
(Another definition for uncle vanya that I've seen is " Chekhov play".)