THREE SISTERS
Performed at the vaudeville Theatre between 19 Jun, 2019 and 29 Jun, 2019
Following a critically acclaimed West End Season at the Theatre Royal Haymarket last year, with their productions of Uncle Vanya and Life & Fate (Critics Choice The Guardian, Financial Times, Telegraph, Sunday Times), the Maly Drama Theatre of St. Petersburg returns to the West End with this luminous retelling of Chekhov’s masterpiece, Three Sisters.
Rediscover the tragicomic story of the Prozorov sisters as they contend with their disillusioned lives in a provincial Russian town. Renowned director Lev Dodin directs this radiant, complex play with rich insight into Chekhov’s eloquent understanding of resignation, longing, and love.
Under the artistic directorship of Lev Dodin – one of the most celebrated theatre practitioners working today – the Maly Drama Theatre of St. Petersburg has become one of the greatest theatres in the world. During his 35-year tenure many of Dodin’s shows have won international awards including state prizes of Russian and the USSR, Golden Mask Awards and a Lawrence Olivier Award (becoming the first international company to do so for Stars in the Morning Sky, 1989). In 2000 he received the European Theatre Award.
Season supported by Roman Abramovich.
Performed in Russian with English surtitles. Please be advised that this production contains the smoking of cigarettes.
The role of Masha will be played by Ksenia Rappoport (19-23 June) and by Elizaveta Boyarskaya (25-29 June).
'a Chekhov of luminous clarity'
The Arts Desk
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'crackles with an urgent electricity'
The Daily Telegraph
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'Extraordinary... You really haven't seen Chekhov until you've seen the Maly Drama Theatre of St Petersburg'
The Times
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'Heart wrenching and exquisitely performed'
The Stage
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'St. Petersburg’s Maly Drama Theatre, led by the superstar director Lev Dodin, simply has no peer in interpreting Chekhov'
Time Out, New York
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'Ethereal… these Russian actors seem to have an intuitive ability to make whiplash fluctuations feel like the most authentic expression of humanity’s common lot'
New York Times