Three Sisters
An Unrehearsed Reading of Three Sisters play by Anton Chekhov took place at the Institute on 31 January 2014. The event was organized to coincide with the 113th anniversary of the opening night of Three Sisters at the Moscow Arts Theatre on 31 January 1901. This was a house warming and an opportunity to meet baby James.
Sound recording of the unrehearsed reading
https://app.box.com/threesisters
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| Institute baby James | Institute child Sid | Institute child Gabriel |
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| Institute teenager Neal Institute father |
Institute baby James Institute mother |
Performance for the Institute family |
The reading was performed by the Drama, Dance and Performance Studies department at Liverpool Hope University – Gary and Lena’s workplace. From 2009 onwards, after Lena did a solo performance called ‘Masha Serghyeevna’, Gary and Lena have been spending odd evenings casting their department in Three Sisters. They finally managed to get round to this by organizing this unrehearsed reading in 2014. Still longing for Moscow (or at least somewhere else to make a life really, really worth it)
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Cast:
Narrator – Cathy Butterworth (Lena’s maternity cover)
Prozorov, Andrey Serghyeevich – Brian Desmond
Natasha, Natalia Ivanovna – Sarah Black
Olga Serghyeevna – Claudia Brazzale
Masha, Maria Serghyeevna – Niamh Malone
Irena Serghyeevna- Zoe Zontou
Koolyghin, Fiodor Ilych – Victor Merriman
Vershinin, Alexandr Ignatyevich – Simon Piasecki
Toozenbach, Nikolai Lvovich – Kris Darby
Soliony, Vassily Vassilich – Declan Patrick
Chebutykin, Ivan Romanych – Brian Desmond
Fedotik, Aleksey Petrovich – Victor Merriman/Declan Patrick
Rode, Vladimir Karlovich – Victor Merriman/Declan Patrick
Ferapont Spiridonych – Victor Merriman
Anfisa – Cathy Butterworth/Gabriel Anderson
We missed Carmel Cleary, David Crilly, John Bennett, Mark Greenwood and Rachel Sweeney.
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| Cathy as Narrator, Simon as Vershinin | Brian as Andrey | Sarah as Natasha |
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| Claudia as Olga | Niamh as Masha | Zoe as Irena, Victor as Koolyghin |
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 Claudia as Olga Gabriel as Anfisa |
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| Kris as Toozenbach | Niamh as Masha, Declan as Soliony |
Andrey’s speech
Sound recording of the unrehearsed reading
https://app.box.com/threesisters
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