Instead of taking place in a Russia teetering on the brink of revolution and war, Inua Ellams’s version of Chekhov’s 1901 play begins in Nigeria right at the outbreak of that country’s civil war
The three sisters cry together. Akosua Amo-Adem plays the eldest sister Lolo, Virgilia Griffith plays the middle sister Nne Chukwu and Makambe K. Simamba plays the little sister Udo.a quarter of a century ago, Soulpepper’s theatrical reputation in Toronto has owed much to the great casts it has assembled to bring the works of Anton Chekhov to life.
The three yearn not for Moscow, but for Lagos, a cosmopolitan city that their late father moved them away from after Nigeria gained independence in 1960, anticipating that there could be conflict between different ethnic groups. An impressive accomplishment of Ellams’s adaptation is how quickly and effectively he explains the politics of the time without exposition – and how easily all this Nigerian history sits on the familiar scaffolding of Chekhov’s original play in the first two acts.
Nne Chukwu, the middle child married to a bland schoolteacher from a young age, is an unhappy romantic who falls quickly for the soulful and strange soldier Ikemba , himself married with two daughters.
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