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Three Sisters
by Kenward Elmslie, Anton Chekhov
I actually saw this play being performed during its short run at the National Theatre in London, back in February 2020. I was exhausted after a long day at work and travelling into the city, wondering to myself why the hell I had bought a single midweek ticket to this show that I didn't know anything about. I was not familiar with the story, the original Chekhov version, Ellams, the ethnic makeup of Nigeria, the Biafran war or the particular effects that colonialism had on this region of the world.
All my fatigue faded the moment I sat in front of that stage, I was enthralled and the play swam around my head for weeks afterwards. The story is simple yet poignant, very human. I felt simultaneously raw and refreshed watching it.
I couldn't let go of this play, and so months later, I decided to read it even though it was still relatively fresh. Since I had already watched this beauty on stage, the actors' voices and the music came flooding back as I read.
Ellams writes in a way that is poetic and rich, his characters are simple but fully fleshed out. They speak with a musical cadence. History and philosophy are woven into the mundane horrors of war. It remains a small family drama, but the relationships shown here are universal.
All my fatigue faded the moment I sat in front of that stage, I was enthralled and the play swam around my head for weeks afterwards. The story is simple yet poignant, very human. I felt simultaneously raw and refreshed watching it.
I couldn't let go of this play, and so months later, I decided to read it even though it was still relatively fresh. Since I had already watched this beauty on stage, the actors' voices and the music came flooding back as I read.
Ellams writes in a way that is poetic and rich, his characters are simple but fully fleshed out. They speak with a musical cadence. History and philosophy are woven into the mundane horrors of war. It remains a small family drama, but the relationships shown here are universal.