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We are Three Sisters (NHB Modern Plays)
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Poet, playwright and novelist Blake Morrison evokes the lives of the Brontë sisters, with a nod to Chekhov's Three Sisters.
Against the backdrop of a windswept northern village, three remarkable young women live their lives brightly.
In Haworth in the 1840s, in a gloomy parsonage, where there are neither curtains nor comforts, Charlotte, Anne and Emily Brontë light up their world with outspoken wit, aspirations, dreams and ideas. And throughout their confined lives intensely lived… they write.
With a touch of poetic licence, Morrison shows us the overwhelming humanity, charged emotions and brooding unease which characterise the Brontë household - and that of Chekhov's Three Sisters.
Blake Morrison's play We Are Three Sisters was first performed at the Viaduct Theatre, Halifax, in 2011.
'Well-researched... beautifully intact, and speaks absolutely to the constrained world the Brontës inhabited' - Telegraph
'Morrison's use of the Three Sisters template is as intelligent as it is daring... a finely tuned piece' - Guardian
Against the backdrop of a windswept northern village, three remarkable young women live their lives brightly.
In Haworth in the 1840s, in a gloomy parsonage, where there are neither curtains nor comforts, Charlotte, Anne and Emily Brontë light up their world with outspoken wit, aspirations, dreams and ideas. And throughout their confined lives intensely lived… they write.
With a touch of poetic licence, Morrison shows us the overwhelming humanity, charged emotions and brooding unease which characterise the Brontë household - and that of Chekhov's Three Sisters.
Blake Morrison's play We Are Three Sisters was first performed at the Viaduct Theatre, Halifax, in 2011.
'Well-researched... beautifully intact, and speaks absolutely to the constrained world the Brontës inhabited' - Telegraph
'Morrison's use of the Three Sisters template is as intelligent as it is daring... a finely tuned piece' - Guardian
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Blake Morrison
Blake Morrison is the author of the bestselling memoir And When Did You Last See Your Father? and another critically acclaimed memoir, Things My Mother Never Told Me, as well as two collections of poems, a children's book and a study of the Bulger case, As If. He lives in London.
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