We Are Three Sisters by Blake Morrison.
23 to 30 June 2018 at Wilmslow Green Room Theatre. Starts 7:45pm.
6, 7 July 2018 open-air production at Quarry Bank, Styal. Starts 7pm.
Poet, playwright and novelist Blake Morrison evokes the lives of the Brontë sisters, with a nod to Chekhov’s Three Sisters.
Against the backdrop of a windswept northern village, three remarkable young women live their lives brightly.
In Haworth in the 1840s, in a gloomy parsonage, where there are neither curtains nor comforts, Charlotte, Anne and Emily Brontë light up their world with outspoken wit, aspirations, dreams and ideas. And throughout their confined lives intensely lived… they write.
With a touch of poetic licence, Morrison shows us the overwhelming humanity, charged emotions and brooding unease which characterise the Brontë household – and that of Chekhov’s Three Sisters.
Cast
| Charlotte Brontë | Melanie Beswick |
| Emily Brontë | Isabelle Greensmith |
| Anne Brontë | Jennifer Brooks |
| Rev Patrick Brontë | Ian McBride |
| Branwell Brontë | Ted Walker |
| Tabitha Aykroyd | Belinda Coghlan |
| Lydia Robinson | Abby Cross |
| Doctor | Ian Fensome |
| Curate | Jonathan White |
| Teacher | Al Fowkes |
Backstage
| Director | John Chidgey |
| Assistant Director | Victoria Johnson |
| Stage Manager | Jill Hine |
| Props | Fennella Fowkes, Christine Unwin |
| ASM | Christine Unwin, Ewan Henderson, Jess Trimble |
| Prompt | June Janes |
| Set Design | Victoria Johnson |
| Lighting | Bruce Williams |
| Sound | Mark Seyler, John Coghlan |
| Wardrobe | Di James, Jo Everett, Carole Holmes |
| Rehearsal photographs | Chris Hills |
| House Manager | Helen Bingle, Shan Bristow, Lorna Kong |
| Ticket Secretary | Pat Pinnock |
