Punk, pyro and three sisters in existential crisis
Three Sisters by Chekhov is the story of three siblings who have lost both parents, and struggle to find meaning in their present context. In The Chekhov, three performers wait through a series of crises, an endlessly changing series of scenarios, that move constantly between comedy and tragedy.
Nicola Gunn re-composes the themes and narrative structure of Anton Chekhov’s 1901 play to connect to the present post-Covid bewilderment, ecological and humanitarian crises, and the ‘contemporary experience’ – widely held to stem from a profound sense of uncertainty or shock in the face of the unimaginable, resulting in a loss of fixed points of reference where neither the world
