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...Sisters

The Gate Theatre, Inner London
From: Thursday, 5th June 2008
To: Saturday, 5 July 2008

Our Review: starstarstar

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Synopsis

An adaptation of Three Sisters by Anton Chekhov.

Our Review: starstarstar

13 June 2008

The director Chris Goode has summed up the aura in Chekhov’s Three Sisters as “this impulse to move, absolutely constrained by the fear of moving”. This covers some of the play, but by no means is all of it, and Goode’s semi-improvised version ...Sisters at the Gate is best viewed as a quick, ingenious 90-minute skim across a masterpiece.

The production is the first in a “New Directions” initiative launched by the Gate and Rupert Goold’s Headlong Theatre to stir up new ways of doing the classics. This kind of radical, deconstructed Chekhov has been going on for years in Eastern Europe, but Goode’s show has a fresh and appealing tone, and is beautifully designed by Naomi Dawson in a big conservatory-like room with hanging flower baskets, a “real time” clock, post-its on the wall (are they train schedules to Moscow?) and a microphone.

The six actors – five female, one male – draw straws, consult letters and proceed randomly but with some ...

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