Chekov reworking at Cheltenham theatre (From Wilts and Gloucestershire Standard)

Chekov reworking at Cheltenham theatre

THREE Sisters, the Chekov classic, has been shaken up Caribbean style in an exciting reworking by award-winning writer Mustapha Matura and will be bringing a slice of sepia coloured sunshine to the Everyman from Wednesday, March 22 to Saturday, March 25.

In this brand new version Matura has transformed the sister's turn of the century Russian life into a richly coloured Caribbean kaleidoscope at the beginning the Second World War.

It's Colonial Trinidad in 1942. Three sisters live a privileged life in Port of Spain with their unworldly brother and his domineering, working class wife. They occupy their lives with empty marriages and indiscreet liaisons.

But their dream is to return home to England, their adopted country, and the spires of Cambridge where they spent their cosmopolitan youth.

Their ambitions of emigrating to Britain crumble, however, as the Second World War escalates and the Trinidadian army are called to serve King, Country and Empire.