FiasCo Theatre presents Anton Chekhov’s
THREE SISTERS
White Bear Theatre, Kennington
14th – 25th October, 2014: 7.30 pm Tuesday – Saturday; 6pm Sunday
Tickets: £ 14, Concessions £10 Box Office: 0844 8700 887
After the well received production of Henrik Ibsen’s “Hedda Gabler” earlier this year (Etcetera Theatre, February 2014, transferred to The King’s Head, April 2014), FiasCo Theatre return this autumn with their take on another classic masterpiece about failed expectations: Anton Chekhov’s “Three Sisters”.
When all other hopes have left, one by one, there is only one thing that grows stronger and stronger in the hearts of the three sisters: the dream of going home, in Anton Chekhov’s play about emotional exile, intellectual solitude, and dreams that refuse to die.
Annemarie Highmore (RADA alumna), one of the co-founders of FiasCo Theatre and the Artistic Director of “Three Sisters” on this production: “Desiring to return to the city from the rural backwater where they have ended up after the death of their parents, the sisters watch year after year pass in a haze of inaction and procrastination, never arriving at what they deem to be individual happiness. The creative team behind 2014’s enthusiastically received “Hedda Gabler”, look at the reasons why the sisters never get there, and what perhaps the future holds for their inescapable situation of sisterly dependency. Looking at their view of happiness, perceptions of romance and dream of something better, FiasCo expose the poignancy, the familiarity and the recognisable traits of the Prozorovs’ situation bringing those facets into sharp relief for a contemporary audience.”
The creative team of FiasCo love experimenting with classical texts, not out of a self indulgent need of being provocative, but in order to see what new connotations new contexts can extract from the well known texts, while remaining loyal to their original message and archetypical characters.
FiasCo will once again attempt to achieve the same level of honesty that was underlying their adaptation of Hedda Gabler, stripping the textual material of all decorum, and using pure play to connect with the essence of the characters, and to unearth the bare truth behind their words.
“We are never happy, only long to be. Happiness is not for us. It is for our very remote descendants.”
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