Chekhov's Three Sisters: at home with the Brontës? | Blake Morrison
My new adaptation will portray Natasha, Masha and Olga as Charlotte, Emily and Anne. It's not as far-fetched as you might imagine …"You should do Three Sisters as the Brontës," the Observer theatre critic Susannah Clapp suggested to me, half-jokingly, about 10 years ago. She had seen a couple of adaptations I'd done for Northern Broadsides " adaptations which take classic European plays and resituate them closer…