Stratford Festival Reviews » Three Sisters

Good enough to justify a trip to Canada all by itself

Keith — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 22:49:08 +0000

The Wall Street Journal has a great feature story raving about The Importance of Being Earnest, saying it alone is worth a trip to Stratford. Teachout has positive notes about Three Sisters and adds that Colm Feore's performance in Macbeth "leaves no doubt that he’s one of the finest classical actors around."

Stratford’s ‘Three Sisters’ frames the rich and empty

Keith — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 02:54:19 +0000

Another in a series of great reviews. ""Three Sisters" is a classic piece of ensemble theater, and director Martha Henry's stellar cast taps the play for every ounce of folly, delusion and destruction."

At the top of my list

Keith — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 16:29:47 +0000

"An exquisite production in every way... It's a gem of a production." Lynn publishes the Slotkin Letter and reports for CBC Radio in Toronto. Click "radio reviews" or "picks and pans" on her website for more.

Three Three Sisters, three dreams, one shared reality

Keith — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 03:07:22 +0000

Coulbourn raves: "Under Henry's careful and considered direction, this is a production that celebrates the kind of theatricality in Chekhov that too many lesser directors try to excise. It's a production to treasure."

A sister act that’s hard to beat

Keith — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 03:35:54 +0000

"While many directors will leaven the play's existential ache with humour, Henry lightens hers by celebrating sisterhood."

Sisters doing it for, and to, themselves

Keith — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 03:25:05 +0000

"There have been other productions of Three Sisters that I've hugely admired, but none that has involved me as deeply with the characters as this one. It's one of the great evenings in the Canadian theatre. And I expect it will get richer."

Profound drama

Keith — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 05:06:50 +0000

"What makes Three Sisters so profound is Chekhov’s tender, yet unflinching, portrait of palpably unhappy lives that hunger for meaning and purpose without repast."

One sister makes up for the rest

Keith — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 04:48:21 +0000

"Acting of this superb intensity doesn't come along very often."

Three Sisters

Keith — Mon, 25 May 2009 01:28:51 +0000