...'the most striking fact of Fall's production is that for all the piercing drama that unfolds is how much genuine humour it finds... Nadia Falls's expansive production... pulses with a sense of danger and conflict...'
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The production and the performances are first-rate, and the house rose spontaneously at the end of a long evening. Yet I still wish Ellams had been even more ruthlessly radical in rewriting Chekhov.'
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It’s a revealing adaptation... one that maintains much of the spirit of the original while transplanting it to a dramatically different world (though some of the textual balances perhaps feel stretched...).'
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There’s something incredibly powerful about seeing elements of Nigerian culture and heritage represented in Ellams’ stirring adaptation...The performances in Nadia Fall’s compelling production are uniformly excellent.'
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...a superb adaptation of Three Sisters set amid Nigeria’s civil war, one which brilliantly fuses the personal and political...also confirms Ellams as one of our most exciting, insightful playwrights.'
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...a fresh but sometimes overburdened new take...a free adaptation that could afford to be freer...but when Ellams finds moments of synchronicity between continents, they’re painfully beautiful.'
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At its best it is a fine, consciousness-expanding example of this year’s trend for fashioning wise new plays out of classics. The acting is top-notch. But I wish director Nadia Fall had reined in Ellams’s excesses...'
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All in all, it's a smart and sophisticated rethinking, a production that gives a new patina and different depths to an old favourite, provoking new thoughts and old feelings in a very Chekovian way.'
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