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Three Sisters

Almeida Theatre, London ****
Runs: 2hr 55 with one interval
Review of perf seen April 19, 2019:

© Marc Brenner, Patsy Ferran (Olga), Pearl Chanda (Masha), Ria Zmitrowicz (Irina) - on a journey to acceptance and stoicism...wonderful trio.

© Marc Brenner, Patsy Ferran (Olga), Pearl Chanda (Masha), Ria Zmitrowicz (Irina) – on a journey to acceptance and stoicism…wonderful trio.

Whichever way you cut it, Chekhov’s Three Sisters is about loss, mounting loss and how to cope with it.

But then, you might adapt that to Chekhov’s two other mighty tragedies, Uncle Vanya and eminently The Cherry OrchardContinue reading