Young Vic, LondonTextual tinkering with the classics rarely works. Better to go the whole hog, as Benedict Andrews does in this radical new Three Sisters, which is set in today's Russia, peppered with four-letter words and has the cast singing a Kurt Cobain number. For all its strangeness, I found Andrews' production true to the spirit of Chekhov's great play and, in the end, profoundly moving.Shocks and surprises co…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:56AM on September 14, 2012