Three Sisters
Published on 4. April 2014
Book
Paperback/Softback
104 pages
978-1-78319-099-7 (ISBN)
Description
"You won't be here. Not in thirty years. You'll have had a stroke, or I'll have shot you. It'll be one or the other."
Three sisters. Three thousand miles from home. Overworked Olga, wild Masha and idealistic Irina dream of returning. Living in a world of deceit, desire and hard drinking, it's difficult but is there something else holding them back?
Reinterpreted for the 21st century by award-winning writer Anya Reiss, this searing new version of Chekhov's most haunting masterpiece reunites the team behind 2012's critically acclaimed, sell-out hit, The Seagull.
Three sisters. Three thousand miles from home. Overworked Olga, wild Masha and idealistic Irina dream of returning. Living in a world of deceit, desire and hard drinking, it's difficult but is there something else holding them back?
Reinterpreted for the 21st century by award-winning writer Anya Reiss, this searing new version of Chekhov's most haunting masterpiece reunites the team behind 2012's critically acclaimed, sell-out hit, The Seagull.
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Language
English
Place of publication
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Dimensions
Height: 208 mm
Width: 130 mm
Thickness: 8 mm
Weight
136 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-78319-099-7 (9781783190997)
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Anya Reiss wrote her first play when she was 14 and then became a member of the Royal Court Theatre's Young Writers' Programme. Last year she was invited to take part in the Royal Court's Supergroup of young writers. Her new adaptation of The Seagull premiered at the Southwark Playhouse at the end of 2012 and prior to that, The Acid Test opened at the Royal Court in May 2011, where it received rave reviews. Her debut play, Spur of the Moment opened at the Royal Court Theatre in July 2010. Since then Anya has won the Most Promising Playwright Award at the 2010 Evening Standard Awards, Best New Play at the 2010 TMA Awards and Most Promising Playwright at the 2010 Critics' Circle Awards.