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Three Sisters


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Stranded in a remote provincial town, three sisters dream of returning to the Moscow of their youth. When a military garrison arrives nearby,the officers become their guests and suddenly a new life seems to be within reach. Liaisons develop, love is in the air and hopes run high - but the sisters reckon without the weakness of their brother, the grasping ambitions of his wife, and the strange eccentricities of a certain lieutenant. An explosion is brewing and matters come to a head on a frantic night of fire.
Author Anton Chekhov

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News etc

The Telegraph (11Jan01)
[Liz Lochhead] s revision turns Chekhov s class tensions into Anglo Scots friction. It s a shame that director [Tony Cownie] hasn t bothered to make the English characters speak with the brittle briskness of the era. But [Caroline Devlin] s bitchiness is strongly underscored with depression, and [Jimmy Chisholm] veers between hilarious explosive rudeness and desperate, cornered loneliness.

Company

Adapted by Liz Lochhead
Company Royal Lyceum Theatre
Director Tony Cownie
Design Geoff Rose
Lighting Jeanine Davies
Performer Tom McGovern
Performer Caroline Devlin
Performer Katherine Igoe
Performer Louse Bolton
Performer Luke Shaw
Performer Gail Watson
Performer Jimmy Chisholm
Performer Michael Mackenzie
Performer Eric Barlow
Performer Bill Murdoch
Performer Sheila Donald
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