Three Sisters on Hope Street - Softcover

Chekhov, Anton

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1854595768 ISBN 13: 9781854595768

Publisher: Nick Hern Books, 2008

Synopsis

A funny, vibrant and moving version of Chekhov's Three Sisters, set amongst the Jewish community in wartime Liverpool. From the award-winning writer Diane Samuels (Kindertransport) and well-known actress and writer Tracy-Ann Oberman.

Liverpool, 1946. A year after the sudden death of their father, sisters Gertie, May and Rita Lasky share their once grand home on Hope Street with their asthmatic brother Arnold, Auntie Biel (who still keeps her packed suitcase under the spare bed) and old family friend Dr Nate Weinberg (who claims, hand on heart, to be on the wagon).

As the sisters regularly welcome GIs and pilots from the nearby American base, each continues her own search for meaning amidst the shattered remains of their city, in a

About this title

About the Author:

Diane Samuels is a playwright whose work has been widely produced. Her play Kindertransport won the Verity Bargate and Meyer-Whitworth Awards, and was first produced by the Soho Theatre Company in 1993. Subsequently it has been translated into many languages, performed in the West End, Off-Broadway and all over the world, and revived numerous times. (2014-02-25)

Review:

'heartwarming...fascinating and powerfully affecting' Telegraph (2014-04-07)

'an extraordinary play' Sunday Times (2014-04-07)

'a bold, fresh and fruitful reinterpretation' Times (2014-10-03)

About this edition

• Publisher: Nick Hern Books
• Publication date: 2008
• ISBN 10: 1854595768
• ISBN 13: 9781854595768
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 135