Three Sisters, Sovremennik review - 'over-conscious of its legendariness'
Celebrated Moscow company delivers something far from contemporarySovremennik is Russian for "contemporary", and ever since its founding in the Soviet Union's 1950s Thaw, Moscow's Sovremennik Theatre company has lived by the idea that it expresses new, fresh breath in Russian theatre. Unless you argue that the adjective "contemporary" by definition must reveal characteristics of its temporal surroundings, morib…