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National Theatre: Inua Ellam's "Three Sisters" Surges with Narrative Energy, Depicting Sisterhood and Colonial Injustice in the Short-Lived Repu by Julian De Medeiros

In recent years there has been a resurgence of progressive adaptations of Chekhov's realist classic, "Three Sisters." Yet none can match the forceful adaptation of Inua Ellam's sweltering rendition, set against the historical backdrop of the 1967 Nigerian Civil War. It is common to observe that a new adaptation constitutes a 're-imagining' of a classic. […] The full version of the article National Theatre: Inua Ell…

SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 01:04AM on December 14, 2019

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