A working-class classic.
‘Out there is the magic I glimpsed as a child. You made me a dreamer and here I am accusing you.’
When Adrianne arrives unexpectedly at her sister Carol’s marital home, she realises nothing is quite what it seems or what she expected. She is forced to question who these people are, and what goes on upstairs?
Carol has questions too. What has happened to Adrianne’s successful career in London, and why has she decided to visit after eighteen years? The sisters’ search for the truth has shocking consequences for both.
Sisters is set in a large council estate in the industrial North of England. It is a remarkable, unsettling play about unrealised ambition, love, morals and madness. It was first presented at the Royal Exchange Theatre, Manchester, in 1978.
Written by David Storey. Directed by Elizabeth Elstub.
Sisters is the launch production for UNCOMMON THEATRE, a theatre company created to support working-class actors, writers and creatives.
David Storey (1933 – 2017) was an award-winning working-class Writer and Artist. Dubbed the ‘Chekhov of the North’, his work at the Royal Court includes In Celebration, Home, The Contractor and The Farm. As a novelist his work includes This Sporting Life, made into a film starring Richard Harris (1963), Pasmore, G Faber Memorial Prize (1973) and Saville, Booker Prize (1976).
Jack Studio Theatre, 410 Brockley Road, London, SE4 2DH from Tuesday 8 – Saturday 26 April at 7.30.
Admission: £17, £15 concessions (16+)
Booking: https://brockleyjack.co.uk/
