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Misery on the Mersey: It's pure Chekhov; Volatile: Suzan Sylvester.
From: The Daily Mail (London, England)
Date: 20080229
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Byline: PATRICK MARMION
ANTON CHEKHOV'S masterpiece about three siblings emotionally suffocatingin provincial 19th-century Russia here becomes a story about three Jewishsisters emotionally suffocating on Merseyside at the end of World War II.
Adapted by Diane Samuels and Tracy-Ann Oberman, a bit of Liverpudlian 'go ed'and Yiddish 'oy vey' mixes with a sprinkling of 'gee whizz' from American GIs.
The Yanks are the source of sexual and marital prospects previously offered bygarrisoned soldiers in Chekhov's drama. But crucially, the sisters' dream ofgoing to Moscow is ...
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