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Three Sisters, Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh

At first glance, this 21st century reimagining of Chekhov’s absurdist romance looks set, not in some period Russian garrison town, but among the Sunday morning aftermath of a dinner party in a posh student flat in Edinburgh.

It’s not just the majority of the cast’s youth in Sean Holmes’ production, a collaboration between the Lyric Hammersmith and the playful Filter company.