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Three Sisters

A Lyric Hammersmith and Filter production

Tue 23 – Sat 27 Feb 2010 7.30pm

Theatre, Tue: £15, Wed – Sat: £17.50, £20, Under 26s: £10

Director: Sean Holmes and Filter

Playwright: Anton Chekhov

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Hope, despair and vodka.

Following their hit show Twelfth Night (in association with the RSC as part of the Complete Works Festival), exhilarating theatre company Filter and the Lyric Hammersmith’s Artistic Director Sean Holmes delve beneath the surface to explore one family’s search for ever elusive happiness.

Frustrated by their small-town existence, the Prozorov family long to return to Moscow. But as relationships, duty and misguided optimism take hold they soon find their dreams drifting further away from them.

Fusing imaginative staging, evocative physicality and Filter’s trademark use of sound, this brand new production distils the essence of Chekhov’s classic.

The combination of Filter’s exuberance and Holmes’ precision have proved a winning formula in the past with both Twelfth Night, and their ground-breaking version (for the National Theatre and on tour at Warwick Arts Centre) of Brecht’s The Caucasian Chalk Circle receiving great critical acclaim.

The cast includes rising star Romola Garai as Masha (Glorious 39; Emma in BBC’s Emma; King Lear/The Seagull, RSC and Briony Tallis in Atonement); Poppy Miller as Olga (Isabella Knightley in BBC’s Emma and Filter’s Twelfth Night); Clare Dunne as Irina (Nabokov’s Crunch); Gemma Saunders as Natasha (Filter’s Twelfth Night and ITV’s Law and Order); Paul Brennen as Kulygin (BBC’s The Tudors and Filter’s Twelfth Night); Jonathan Broadbent as Tuzenbach (Grand Guignol, Theatre Royal Plymouth and Filter’s Twelfth Night); Jim Bywater as Ferapont (Uncle Vanya, Young Vic); Nigel Cooke as Chebutykin (Out of Joint’s Dreams of Violence); David Judge as Rodé (Irish Pele, Manchester Contact Theatre); John Lightbody as Vershinin (Headlong’s The English Game); Ferdy Roberts as Andrei (Filter’s Twelfth Night and Caucasian Chalk Circle, National Theatre); Mark Theodore as Solyony (Days Of Significance, RSC); Sandra Voe as Anfisa (The Man Who Had All The Luck, Donmar Warehouse) and Paul Woodson as Fedotik (BBC’s The Day of the Triffids).

“Romola Garai’s Masha has exactly the right sensuous longing” The Guardian

“The spontaneity and daring of this Three Sisters make for an eye-opening production” **** Daily Telegraph

“Terrific performances” **** The Independent

“Clare Dunne’s Irina is beautiful, fun and full of life” The Stage

“Act of cheeky challenge and loving homage… Romola Garai’s excellent Masha, John Lightbody’s impressive Vershinin… the sense of company acting is irresistible” Sunday Times

Official website

Interactive Three Sisters site

Running time: 2hrs 45 mins (inc interval)

Dates & Times

Tue 23 Feb Theatre 7:30pm
Wed 24 Feb Theatre 7:30pm
Thu 25 Feb Theatre 7:30pm
Fri 26 Feb Theatre 7:30pm
Sat 27 Feb Theatre 7:30pm

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Seating up to 550, audiences are assured of an excellent view of the stage and comfortable seating in this well-designed auditorium. The theatre stages the best national and international plays and performances, as well as contemporary and international dance, music and comedians.

Part of A Night Less Ordinary

4 Comments

  • Really wanna see that

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    john at 4:28pm on Fri 19th Feb 2010

  • Nice Trailer

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    ben at 4:29pm on Fri 19th Feb 2010

  • This page doesn't obviously specify that under 26 tickets are limited, when i went to buy one i was informed they had 'run out'. In future it would be nice if this was specified.

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    Alex at 4:18pm on Mon 22nd Feb 2010

  • Hi Alex. Thanks for your feedback. There isn't a limit on the £10 tickets for under 26s - I'm sorry if you were lead to believe they had 'run out'. Perhaps there was some confusion with the free 'A Night Less Ordinary' tickets, which are limited. Do call back if you can, it's a terrific show!

    Warwick Arts Centre Staff

    Keri, Marketing Team at 5:11pm on Mon 22nd Feb 2010

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