Almeida For Free
Free
Available to those aged 25 and under
ALMEIDA FOR FREE
This is a free performance for those aged 25 and under
Do you ever wonder what would happen if we could live our lives all over again but be fully conscious of it the second time?
I bet we’d try to do everything differently, or at least would know to create a different world for ourselves.
In a room in a house in a provincial town, three sisters wait for their lives to begin.
Olga, the eldest. Masha, the middle child. Irina, the youngest.
The clock strikes. A candle is lit.
The clock stops. Something catches fire.
The clock strikes. They wake up.
Following her critically acclaimed production of Summer and Smoke (winner Best Revival at the 2019 Olivier Awards), Almeida Associate Director Rebecca Frecknall directs Anton Chekhov’s Three Sisters, in a new adaptation by Cordelia Lynn (One For Sorrow, Lela & Co).
Cast includes Patsy Ferran (Summer and Smoke, winner Best Actress at the 2019 Olivier Awards), Pearl Chanda (Ink) and Ria Zmitrowicz (Dance Nation).
Rehearsal photography by Marc Brenner.
Thu 30 May 7.30pm
Tickets free and exclusive to those aged 25 and under, limited to 2 per person. Please bring proof-of-age ID on collection.
STANDBY QUEUE
We will be operating a returns queue at the theatre from 6.30pm for any returned or newly released tickets. These are free tickets for 25s and under.
Access Bookings
This performance will be Captioned and Audio Described by VocalEyes. To book and for further information please contact the Box Office on 020 7359 4404.
Touch Tour at 6pm
Listen to the Three Sisters Audio Introduction
Transcription available here.
Masha Sergeyevna
For the Almeida: Ink (also West End).
Theatre includes: One for Sorrow (Royal Court); Julie (Northern Stage Company); The Glass Menagerie (Nuffield Theatre); The Angry Brigade (Bush Theatre); Crave; 4.48 Psychosis (Crucible, Sheffied); Two Gentlemen of Verona (RSC); Godchild (Hampstead Theatre); The Seagull (Headlong).
Television includes: Endeavour; Arthur and George; Holby City.
Film includes: The Final Haunting; Mr Turner.
Natasha Ivanovna
Theatre includes: Dear Elizabeth (The Gate); Vulcan 7 (Jonathan Church Productions/ Theatre Royal Bath); Parliament Square (The Royal Exchange/ Bush Theatre); Common (The National Theatre); Peter Pan (The National Theatre); Wonder.land (The National Theatre/ Theatre Du Chatelet & MIF); Diary of a Madman (The Traverse Theatre/ The Gate); Pitcairn (Out of Joint/ Shakespeare’s Globe/ Chichester); Nightingale and Chase (Stonecrabs Theatre Company); Days of Significance (Mountview Academy of Theatre Arts); Compleat Female Stage Beauty (Mountview Academy of Theatre Arts); Our Town (Mountview Academy of Theatre Arts); A Doll’s House (Mountview Academy of Theatre Arts); Punk Rock (Mountview Academy of Theatre Arts).
Television includes: Top Boy; Doctor Who; Group; There She Goes; Care; Small Town Politics; Trust Me; Radges; Holby City.
Film includes: Earth, Air, Fire, Water.
Radio includes: Of a Lifetime; Homefront; The Three Musketeers.
Vasily Vasilevich Solyony
This is Alexander’s stage debut.
Television includes: Casualty; The Face at the Window.
Film includes: Solo: A Star Wars Story.
Olga Sergeyevna
For the Almeida: Summer and Smoke (also West End).
Theatre includes: My Mum's A Twat (Royal Court); Speech and Debate (Trafalgar Studios); As You Like It; Treasure Island (National Theatre); The Merchant Of Venice (RSC); The Angry Brigade (Paines Plough); Blithe Spirit (Gielgud Theatre).
Television includes: Will; Guerrilla; Jamestown.
Film includes: Darkest Hour; God’s Own Country; Tulip Fever; The National Phobia Association’s Day Out.
Patsy won the Critcs' Circle Theatre Award for Best Actress in 2019 and for Most Promising Newcomer in 2014, and was nominated for an Emerging Talent Award at the Evening Standard Theatre Awards in 2015.
Patsy trained at RADA.
Anfisa
For the Almeida: Oresteia; Macbeth.
Theatre Includes: Roundelay (Southwark Playhouse); The Crucible (The Old Vic Theatre); To Kill a Mockingbird (Manchester Royal Exchange); The Golden Dragon (Arcola and UK Tour); Billy Liar (West Yorkshire Playhouse); An Argument About Sex (Tramway/Traverse Theatre); Three Sisters (Manchester Royal Exchange); An Ideal Husband (Manchester Royal Exchange); King Arthur (Arcola Theatre); Ana in Love (Hackney Empire); Separate Tables (Manchester Royal Exchange); Only the Lonely (Birmingham Rep); Becket (Theatre Royal Haymarket); Three Women (Riverside Studios); Wonderful Beast: Maps of Desire (Southwark Playhouse); Dance of Death (Lyric Theatre); Habitat (Manchester Royal Exchange); Maps of Desire (Southwark Playhouse); Les Liaisons Dangereuses (Liverpool Playhouse); Henry V (RSC); The Comedy of Errors (RSC); Macbeth (West Yorkshire Playhouse); Much Ado About Nothing (Cheek By Jowl); Orpheus (Actors Touring Company); The Belle Vue (Actors Touring Company); Ion (Actors Touring Company; Celestina (Actors Touring Company); Hedda Gabler (English Touring Theatre); The Invisible Woman (Gate Theatre); A Little Satire (Gate Theatre); The Candidate (Manchester Royal Exchange); The House of Mirth (Cambridge Theatre Company); Postcards from Rome (West Yorkshire Playhouse); A Working Woman (West Yorkshire Playhouse); Tess of the d’Ubervilles (West Yorkshire Playhouse); The Winter’s Tale (Acter USA University Tours); Romeo and Juliet (Acter USA University Tours); Mary Stuart (Battersea Arts Centre); God Say Amen (ESC); The Old Devils (Theatre Clwyd); A Handful of Dust (Shared Experience); High Society (Victoria Palace Theatre); The Passion (NT Cottesloe ); Julius Caesar (NT Olivier); The York Mysteries.
Television includes: New Tricks; Midsomer Murders; Kingdom; Eastenders; Elizabeth I; Doctors; 10th Kingdom; An Evil Streak; Kavanagh QC; Heartbeat; Animal Ark; Surgical Spirit; Boon; Heart of the Country; Growing Rich; Poirot; The Good Guys; Mother Love; Hotel Du Lac; Flesh and Blood; Lillie; The Nearly Man; Crown Court; Persuasion.
Film includes: Des Gens Qui S’Embrassent; In Love with Alma Cogan; Esther Khan; Anna and the King; Strapless; Lionheart: The Children’s Crusade; A Passage to India; The Magic Box; Sunday Bloody Sunday; A Severed Head; Accident; The Servant; Carry on Nurse.
Fyodor Ilyich Kulygin
For the Almeida: Mary Stuart (West End).
Theatre includes: Snowflake (Arts at the Old Fire Station/Supporting Wall); St Joan; Coriolanus (Donmar Warehouse); The Mighty Walzer (The Royal Exchange); The Ruling Class (West End); Kafka’s Dick (Theatre Royal Bath); Canvas (Chichester Festival Theatre); Much Ado about Nothing (West End); Danton’s Death; The Habit of Art; All’s Well That Ends Well; England People Very Nice; Henry IV parts 1&2; (National Theatre); Beasts and Beauties (Bristol Old Vic); Comedy of Errors (RSC); How Much Is Your Iron; Monkey (Young Vic); Love’s Work (Gate/NT Studio); On Ego; On Religion (Soho Theatre); Take Flight (Menier Chocolate Factory); The Tempest (British Council Tour/A&BC); Three Sisters on Hope Street (Hampstead Theatre/Liverpool Everyman); Tonight We Fly (Trestle).
Film includes: Murder on the Orient Express; Denial; Fallen; The Master of York; Florence Foster Jenkins; The Lady in the Van; Spooks; Philomena; The Wall; The Queen; Filth and Wisdom; Song of Songs; An Hour in Paradise; Book of John; Dominoes; Judas and Jesus; Queues and Pee; Jason and the Argonauts; Jesus; Denial.
Television includes: Peaky Blinders; Press; Watergate; Black Earth Rising; Silent Witness; Man Down; The Child in Time; Man Down; A Midsummer Night’s Dream; Man Down; The Wrong Mans; Ripper Street; Jamaica Inn; New Tricks; Silent Witness; Da Vinci’s Demons; Parade’s End; A Touch of Cloth; Casualty; Amnesia; Beau Brummell; Casualty 1906; Eastenders; Fat Friends; Holby City; Hotel Babylon; Lump In My Throat; Robin Hood 3; Sex, The City and Me; Sirens.
Radio includes: Metamorphoses; Between Ballard’s Ears; Heart of Darkness; What I Read to the Dead; The Cazalets; Warsaw Ghetto; The Recruiting Officer; Our Country’s Good; Wild Honey; The Takeover; Vasily Grossman from the Front Line; Life and Fate; Dickens’ London; Living with Princes.
Ferapont Spiridonych
For the Almeida: Summer and Smoke (also West End).
Theatre includes: Brave New World; 1984 (Creation Theatre); A Tale of Two Cities (Chung Ying Theatre); Government Inspector; Annie Get Your Gun (Young Vic); Backwards (Station House Opera); Gormenghast (David Glass Ensemble); One Snowy Night (Slot Machine); Henry V (Southwark Playhouse); Half-Life (National Theatre of Scotland); Get Carter, Orlando;The Hammer; The Way of All Flesh (Red Shift); Private Lives (Volcano Theatre); The Caucasian Chalk Circle (Orange Tree Theatre); The Sirens of Titan; The Odyssey; Pericles (London Bubble); Hang On; Salt (Theatre-Rites); Without Trace (V-TOL Dance Company); Here’s What I Did With My Body One Day (Lightwork); Animal Crackers; Cyrano de Bergerac (Royal Exchange, Manchester); MSM (DV8 Physical Theatre); Summer Lightning (Salisbury Playhouse); Marat/Sade; All My Sons (Bristol Old Vic); The Double (Glasgow Citizens Theatre); As You Like It (TAG Theatre); The Asylum of Antonin Artaud (Gate Theatre); Tip Top Condition (Lumiere and Son).
Television includes: The Night Manager; The Borgias; Hububb.
Film includes: Darkest Hour; Rogue One: A Star Wars Story; Tale of Tales; Anna Karenina.
Radio includes: The Scarlet Pimpernel; Faith Without God.
Eric also makes his own work, which includes the hybrid art installation/performance - A Voyage Around My Bedroom.
Alexander Ignatevich Vershinin
For the Almeida: Nocturne (also Traverse).
Theatre includes: The Weir; Days of Wine and Roses (Donmar Warehouse); The Veil; Greenland (National Theatre); Red Bud (Royal Court); The Caretaker (Liverpool Everyman/Trafalgar Studios); Dancing at Lughnasa (The Old Vic); Glengarry Glenn Ross (West End); Exiles; The Aristocrats (National Theatre); Resurrection Blues (Old Vic); The Wexford Trilogy (Oxford Stage Company); Van Gogh’s Ear; The Stars Lose their Glory; The Brother (International Bar); Inventing Fortune’s Wheel (Firkin Crane Theatre); The Stranger (Players Theatre).
Television includes: Thirteen; Virtuoso; Murder; No Offence; May Day; Moone Boy; Titanic; City of Vice; The Family Man; Green Wing; Sea of Souls; The Plot to Kill Hitler; Spooks; Fergus’s Wedding; Paths to Freedom.
Film includes: The Stag; Wreckers; The Damned United; The Henchman’s Tale; No News From God; Spin the Bottle; When Brendan Met Trudy; Nora; Saltwater; The Opportunists; Some Voices; Felicia’s Journey; An Inch Over the Horizon; I Went Down; November Afternoon.
Andrey Sergeyevich
Theatre includes: The Jungle (West End); Fracked! (Chichester Festival Theatre/UK Tour); The Castle; New Labour; As You Like It; The Double Dealer; Measure for Measure (RADA).
Television includes: The Crown; To Walk Invisible.
Film includes: The Personal History of David Copperfield.
Vladimir
Theatre includes: Nothing (Royal Exchange Theatre); King Lear (The Duke of York's Theatre); Cacophony (The Yard Theatre).
Sonny is making his professional debut in Three Sisters having trained as a member of the Almeida Young Company last year.
Nikolay Lvovich Tuzenbach
Theatre includes: An Adventure (Bush Theatre); As You Like It/ Hamlet (Globe Theatre); Lions and Tigers (Shakespeare’s Globe); Specie (Fat Git Theatre); The Nose (Edinburgh Fringe Festival); Anthony & Cleopatra (Warwick Arts Centre); The Resistable Rise of Arturo Ui (National Student Drama Festival); Pupation (Hampstead Theatre Writers’ Festival); Lilies in Suez (Hampstead Theatre: Heat & Light Co); N-Gage (Lyric Theatre: Frantic Assembly); Stadium Arts (National Youth Theatre).
Television includes: Criminal; Bodyguard; Grey Mates; Fresh Meat; this feels fucking weird.
Film includes: 6 Underground; Overlord; The Cut; Honour; The Suspension Of Disbelief; Wah! Wah! Girls.
Alexey (little alex)
Theatre includes: The Reluctant Fundamentalist (Finborough Theatre); A Tale of Two Cities (Darlington Civic Theatre); Daughter of the Forest (UK Tour); Sara Pascoe’s Christmas Assembly (Battersea Arts Centre).
Television includes: Guerrilla.
Ivan Romanovich Chebutykin
For the Almeida: Mary Stuart; The Jew of Malta.
Theatre includes: Gundog (Royal Court Theatre); As You Like It (National Theatre); Here We Go (National Theatre); Light Shining in Buckinghamshire (National Theatre); The Crucible (West Yorkshire Playhouse); Mint (Royal Court Theatre); The President Has Come to See You (Royal Court Theatre); Talk Show (Royal Court Theatre); Krapp’s Last Tape (Hull Truck Theatre); A Thousand Stars Explode in the Sky (Lyric Theatre); War Horse (National Theatre/ West End); Every Good Boy Deserves Favour (National Theatre); The Birthday Party (Lyric Theatre); A Number (The Peacock); Comfort Me with Apples (Hampstead Theatre); Stoning Mary (Royal Court Theatre); The Scarlett Letter (Chichester Festival Theatre); Lucky Dog (Royal Court Theatre); Twelfth Night (English Touring Theatre); Black Milk (Royal Court Theatre); Terrorism (Royal Court Theatre); Under the Whalebeck (Royal Court Theatre); The Inland Sea (Oxford Stage Company); Casanova (Suspect Culture); Crave (Paines Plough/Royal Court Theatre); Local (Royal Court Theatre); The Sea (Chichester Festival Theatre); The Rib Cage (Manchester Royal Exchange); Mountain Man (Tarragon Theatre); Kiss the Sky (Bush Theatre); Vigil (Arts Club Vancouver); The Darling Family (Theatre Pass Muraille); The Duke of Nothing (Tarragon Theatre); Toronto Mississippi (Magnus Theatre); Dixieland’s Night of Shame (Tarragon Theatre); The King of America (Tarragon Theatre); White Dogs of Texas (Tarragon Theatre); A Tale of Two Cities (Liverpool Playhouse); Having a Ball (Liverpool Playhouse); The Cockroach Trilogy (Hull Truck UK/ US Tour); Mean Streaks (Hull Truck); Prejudice (Liverpool Everyman); To the Chicago Abyss (Manchester Royal Exchange); Mary Barnes (Birmingham Rep); Small Ads (Kings Head Theatre); Bed of Roses (Hull Truck); Bridget’s House (Hull Truck); The Weekend After Next (Hull Truck).
Television includes: The Capture; Casualty; Father Brown; Chernobyl; Doctors; The Crown; The Coroner; Sun Trap; The Guilty; Endeavour; The Starlings; Utopia; Doc Martin; Midsomer Murders; Luther; Shameless; Crimson Petal; Vera; Pulse; Eastenders; Mutual Friends; Spooks; PA’s; Silent Witness; Holby City; New Tricks; Innocence; Heartbeat; Rome; Derailed; Elizabeth – The Virgin Queen; Waste of Shame; Life Begins Series; The Bill; Charles 2nd; Peterloo; Paradise Heights; Serious and Organized; Wire in the Blood; Peak Practice; Sirens; Badger; Coronation Street; Love in a Cold Climate; The Mayor of Casterbridge; Always and Everyone; Getting Hurt; Scold’s Bridle; Touching Evil; Wycliffe; The Capture.
Film includes: Triple Word Score; Peterloo; Ich War Zuhause Aber; The Dreamlike Path; Trespass Against Us; War Horse; London Boulevard; Grow Your Own; The Restraint of Beasts; Vera Drake; Bright Young Things; Le Voyage; The Life and Death of Peter Sellers; All or Nothing; Heartlands; Elephant Juice; Among Giants; The Cockroach that Ate Cincinatti; The Darling Family; Daughters of the Country.
Radio includes: Adrift; Black Dirt; Hard Times; Our Kath; Five Letters Home to Elizabeth.
Irina Sergeyevna
For the Almeida: Dance Nation.
Theatre includes: Gun Dog; Bad Roads; X (Royal Court); Plastic (Ustinov Studio, Bath); The Crucible (Royal Exchange Theatre); Arcadia (English Touring Theatre/Theatre Royal Brighton); Four Minutes Twelve Seconds (Hampstead Theatre/ Trafalgar Studios); Chapel Street (The Bush/Edinburgh Underbelly/ Liverpool Everyman); God’s Property (Soho Theatre); Skanky (Arcola Theatre).
Television includes: Through the Gates; Three Girls; Mr Selfridge; Outlaws; Youngers; Nightshift; The Midnight Beast; Murder on the Home Front; Whitechapel.
Film includes: Teen Spirit; Entebbe; Jellyfish; Kill Your Friends.
Direction
Rebecca is Associate Director at the Almeida Theatre and was previously on the Almeida’s Resident Director Scheme supported by the Eranda Rothschild Foundation.
As director, for the Almeida: Summer and Smoke (also West End).
As director, theatre includes: Steel (Sheffield Crucible); From Morning to Midnight (Bridewell Theatre); Educating Rita (Durham Gala); Julie; What Are They Like?; Idomeneus (Northern Stage); You, Me, and Everything Else (Soho Theatre/UK Tour); Aftermath (Royal & Derngate); A Streetcar Named Desire - Parallel Production (Young Vic); Something Cloudy, Something Clear (Greenwich Theatre); Summer and Smoke (Southwark Playhouse); Bassett (New Diorama).
As Resident/Assistant Director, for the Almeida: Ink.
As Resident/Assistant Director, theatre includes: James and the Giant Peach; The wonderful Wizard of Oz; Here is the News from Over There; Cyrano de Bergerac (Northern Stage); The Taming of The Shrew (RSC); From Morning to Midnight; Liola (National Theatre); The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe (ThreeSixty Productions); After Miss Julie (Young Vic); Dream Story (The Gate).
Rebecca trained at Goldsmiths, LAMDA, and on the National Theatre Studio’s Directors Course. Upon graduating she received a Jerwood Assistant Director Bursary to train at the Young Vic and in 2015 she won the acclaimed Regional Theatres Young Directors Scheme Bursary at Northern Stage. She was one of the first winners of the Michael Grandage Company Futures Bursary in 2016, was Runner-Up for the Royal Theatrical Support Trust Director Award 2016 and a 2017 finalist, and was a finalist for the 2014 & 2017 Genesis Future Directors Award at the Young Vic.
Version
Theatre includes: One For Sorrow; Best Served Cold; Lela & Co; Believers Anonymous; After The War.
Her opera writing credits include Miranda and other vocal work includes Heave, The White Princess and you’ll drown dear. She was the recipient of the Harold Pinter Commission 2017.
The running time is approximately 2 hours and 55 minutes including a 15 minute interval.
This production contains sudden loud noises.
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Adaptation Cordelia Lynn
Direction Rebecca Frecknall
Design Hildegard Bechtler
Light Jack Knowles
Sound George Dennis
Composition Angus MacRae
Casting Julia Horan CDG
Costume Supervision Laura Hunt
Prop Supervision Lizzie Frankl
Resident Director Ebenezer Bamgboye
Associate Lighting Designer Jamie Platt
Cast
Pearl Chanda
Lois Chimimba
Alexander Eliot
Patsy Ferran
Annie Firbank
Elliot Levey
Eric MacLennan
Peter McDonald
Freddie Meredith
Sonny Poon Tip
Shubham Saraf
Akshay Sharan
Alan Williams
Ria Zmitrowicz