three sisters
Written By: Brian Friel (translation of Anton Chekov)
Directed By: Paula McFetridge
Production Premiere: 18th – 19th August 2018
‘IRELAND IS A LITTLE RUSSIA’, wrote George Moore in 1911, ten years after Three Sisters was first performed on the Russian stage.
Set at the turn of the century in a grand provincial house, the play follows the emotional entanglements of three sisters and their awkward brother, dreaming of returning to Moscow as the old-world crumbles around them.
Brian Friel’s translation, which premiered in the Guildhall, Derry in 1981, seamlessly adapts Chekhov’s language to the rhythms of Irish conversation. Kabosh’s rehearsed reading as part of Arts Over Borders 2018, brought together fourteen actors (including some of the cast of Lisa McGee’s Derry Girls) in a world of deception, disaster and self-sacrifice played out on the banks of the Foyle.
CREATIVE TEAM
Cast:
Baron Tusenbach: Michael Condron
Fyodor Kulygin: Gary Crossan
Captain Solyony: Rhys Dunlop
Alexander Vershinin: Tony Flynn
Roddey: Darren Franklin
Olga: Nicky Harley
Fedotik: Conor Hinds
Irina: Saoirse Monica-Jackson
Andrey Prozorov: Terry Keeley
Ferapont: Noel McGee
Masha: Dearbháile McKinney
Anfisa: Carol Moore
Natahsa: Jamie-Lee O’Donnell
Doctor Chebutykin: Lalor Roddy
Designer: Liz Cullinane
Stage Manager: Sophie Thompson
Producers: Zoe Fox and Dominic Montague
PAST PERFORMANCES
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Staged as a rehearsed reading 18th – 19th August 2018 | Foyle Arts Centre, Derry
as part of the Arts Over Borders Festival
Funded by