Details

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.

Cast/Performers

Tom McGovern, Caroline Devlin, Katherine Igoe, Louse Bolton, Luke Shaw, Gail Watson, Jimmy Chisholm, Michael Mackenzie, Eric Barlow, Bill Murdoch, Sheila Donald

Creatives/Company

Author: Anton Chekhov
Adapted by: Liz Lochhead
Company: Royal Lyceum Theatre
Director: Tony Cownie
Design: Geoff Rose
Lighting: Jeanine Davies

Three Sisters

Three Sisters (Play) production archive for QTIX code T2098454683. Details of all Three Sisters archived productions can be found under the QTIX code: S5274

Archive Listings

11 Feb 00
to
4 Mar 00

Royal Lyceum Theatre
Edinburgh
Performance Details => Venue archive

Reviews

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.

User Reviews

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.

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