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Tom Patterson Theatre Buy Tickets May 9 – Oct 3

Three Sisters

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Good enough to justify a trip to Canada all by itself

Terry Teachout The Wall Street Journal 23/07/09 http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970203946904574300393949293078.html

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 ...

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

Lawrence B. Johnson The Detroit News 02/07/09 http://www.detnews.com/article/20090630/ENT01/906300301/Stratford-s--Three-Sisters--frames-the-rich-and-empty

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."

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At the top of my list

Lynn Slotkin The Slotkin Letter 23/06/09 http://www.slotkinletter.com/

"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.

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Three Three Sisters, three dreams, one shared reality

John Coulbourn Sun Media 18/06/09 http://lfpress.ca/newsstand/Today/Entertainment/2009/06/05/9683761-sun.html

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."

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A sister act that’s hard to beat

J. Kelly Nestruck The Globe and Mail 09/06/09 http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/arts/a-sister-act-thats-hard-to-beat/article1171355/

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

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Sisters doing it for, and to, themselves

Robert Cushman National Post 09/06/09 http://www.nationalpost.com/story.html?id=1668454

"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."

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Profound drama

Robert Reid The Record 05/06/09 http://news.therecord.com/News/article/547782

"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."

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One sister makes up for the rest

Richard Ouzounian Toronto Star 05/06/09 http://www.thestar.com/entertainment/theatre/article/645353

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

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