Young
Vic
ANTON CHEKHOV
THREE
SISTERS
IN A VERSION BY BENEDICT ANDREWS
THIS PRODUCTION OPENED AT THE YOUNG VIC 8 SEPTEMBER 2012.
THREE SISTERS
by Anton Chekhov
in a version by Benedict Andrews
| Natasha | Emily Barclay |
| Maid | Orion Ben |
| Ferapont | Harry Dickman |
| Chebutykin | Michael Feast |
| Olga | Mariah Gale |
| Fedotik | Gruffudd Glyn |
| Irina | Gala Gordon |
| Vershinin | William Houston |
| Masha | Vanessa Kirby |
| Andrey | Danny Kirrane |
| Rodé | Richard Pryal |
| Anfisa | Ann Queensberry |
| Solyony | Paul Rattray |
| Kulygin | Adrian Schiller |
| Tuzenbach | Sam Troughton |
| Direction | Benedict Andrews |
| Design | Johannes Schütz |
| Costumes | Victoria Behr |
| Light | James Farncombe |
| Sound | Paul Arditti |
| Musical Direction & Arrangement | Phil Bateman |
| Casting | Maggie Lunn CDG and Camilla Evans CDG |
| Assistant Direction | Natalie Abrahami |
| Design Associate | Ben Clark |
| Literal Translation | Helen Rappaport |
| Stage Manager | Sarah Tryfan |
| Deputy stage manager | Francesca Finney |
| Assistant Stage Manager Book Cover | Sarah Coates |
| Assistant Stage Manager | Sophie Rubenstein |
| Costume Supervisor | Fizz Jones |
| Hair Design | Campbell Young |
| Costume Assistant and Dressers | Katie Avis |
| Caroline McCall | |
| Hair & Make-up Assistant | Sinead Kennedy |
| Stage Crew | Alec Bowyer |
| Sergio Galaviz | |
| Tom Nutt | |
| Set built by | Ele Loizides |
| Ben Porter | |
| Edward Wirtz | |
| William Wyld | |
| Additional set built by | All Scene All Props |
| Belgrade Theatre Workshops, Coventry | |
| Painted by | Charlotte Gainey |
| Rachel Mandley | |
| Costumes made by | Caroline McCall |
| Recorded music played by | Orion Ben (violin) |
| Special thanks to Sergey Gordeev. | |
Three sisters is sponsored by
with support from the Goethe Institut London.
We also thank
Adam Norton and St Mary Abbots Centre, Nicola Thorold and Paddy Dillon, Hannah Levin, Toby Timcombe, Damian King, James Sykes-Hagen, Michael Stewart, Liz and Chris Owens, English Touring Theatre, Russian Orthodox Church, London, shelly Lauman
Anton Chekhov
Anton Chekhov was born in 1860 to a peasant father in Taganrog in Ukraine, then part of Russia. he supported his family by writing hundreds of comic sketches for newspapers while training to be a doctor. The short stories that followed (the last, The Fiancee, written in the year of his death) established him as the greatest writer in Russian of the generation after Tolstoy and Dostoevsky. These sixty stories, the basis of his global fame, have influenced every major short story writer from Guy de Maupassant to Katherine Mansfield to Raymond Carver. Alongside his sketches, he wrote a series of comic one-acts and then his experimental full-length plays which were so ahead of their time that the leading director of the day, Constantin Stanislavsky, struggled to understand how to interpret them. The Seagull, his most conservative great work, looks back to the theatre of Ostrovsky and Turgenev. With Uncle Vanya, he invented a new style of theatre – surface naturalism with strong undertones of expressionism and vaudeville, which he brought to perfection in Three Sisters. The Cherry Orchard is a move in a new direction, the undertones rising to the surface. He had begun a play set on an ice flow when he died of the tuberculosis that had plagued him all his life. He was 44 years old.
Benedict Andrews
For the Young Vic: The Return of Ulysses (with ENO). As director, recent theatre includes: Every Breath, The Seagull, version by Benedict Andrews, Measure for Measure, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, The Chairs, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Threepenny Opera (Belvoir St Theatre, Sydney); Gross und Klein / Big and Little (Barbican / Sydney Theatre Company); King Lear (National Theatre of Iceland, Reykjavik); Saved, A Streetcar Named Desire, The Dog, The Night and the Knife, Drunk Enough to Say I Love You?, Stoning Mary, The Ugly One, Blackbird, Cleansed (Schaubühne am Lehniner platz, Berlin); The City, Julius Caesar, Far Away, Life is a Dream, Mr Kolpert, Old Masters, Three Sisters, Attempts on Her Life, La Dispute (Sydney Theatre Company); The War of the Roses, adapted by Benedict Andrews & Tom Wright (Sydney Theatre Company/Sydney Festival/Perth Festival); Moving Target (Malthouse Theatre/Adelaide Festival/Sydney Opera House); The Season at Sarsaparilla (Sydney Theatre Company / Melbourne Theatre Company); Eldorado (Malthouse Theatre, Melbourne); Endgame, Fireface (Sydney Theatre Company / Sydney Festival). As director, opera includes: Caligula (English National Opera); The Marriage of Figaro (Sydney Opera House); The Eternity Man (Almeida Opera).
As writer, theatre includes: Every Breath (Belvoir St Theatre, Sydney).
Johannes Schütz Design
Theatre includes: Die Mama und die Hure (Schauspielhaus Bochum); Macbeth (Düsseldorfer Schauspielhaus); Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, Uncle Vanya (Deutsches Theater Berlin); The Seagull (Deutsches Theater Berlin / Salzburger Festspiele); God of Carnage, Hier und Jetzt (Schauspielhaus Zurich); Tristan and Isolde,