A luminous new version of Chekhov's magnificent tragicomedy about the three Prozorov girls and their rapacious sister-in-law. Author of the award-winning Vincent in Brixton, Wright has also produced English version of such classics as Ibsen's John Gabriel Borkman, Pirandello's Naked and Wedekind's Lulu.

Craiglockhart, Scotland, 1917. In a hospital for shell-shocked officers, a brilliant doctor provides the cures required to send his patients back to War. Under his tolerant reign, two young officers form a passionate comradeship. Each is a poet, one unknown, the other privileged and successful. Mentored by the older man, the younger falls in love; his genius flowers and he becomes the greater writer. But as his health is restored, he must face a return to battle.

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"Nicholas Wright's deeply moving play stays true to Barker's vision while highlighting its own chosen themes of...