Three Sisters

When director Susanne Kennedy 1977 takes a classic text as a basis for a play she makes it all her own Whether Henrik Ibsens Hedda Gabler Rainer Werner Fassbinders The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant or as now Chekhovs Drei Schwestern Three Sisters the original characters lines play only a minor part in her plays Kennedy is especially interested in the unspoken desires of Hedda Petra or in this case the sisters In her claustrophobic stagings she magnifies what goes unsaid and possibly cannot be put into words at all to frightening proportions