THREE SISTERS AFTER CHEKHOV

WRITTEN BY: MUSTAPHA MATURA

DIRECTED BY: GREGG T. DANIEL

2010

Lower Depth Theatre’s very first production.

In Colonial Trinidad 1941, three sisters endure a mundane but privileged life in the capital, Port of Spain. They occupy their lives with empty marriages and petty liaisons whilst dreaming of returning to their adopted home country Cambridge, England where they spent their cosmopolitan youth. But hopes of emigrating to Britain are soon shattered as the European war escalates into a global conflict and the Trinidadian soldiers are called to serve King, country and Empire. Adapted from one of Chekhov’s greatest works, Three Sisters After Chekhov examines the question of cultural identity and the way people transform themselves (willingly or unconsciously) in order to survive.