Project selected for the 5th edition of the Amélia Rey Colaço Grants, an initiative promoted by A Oficina (Guimarães), O Espaço do Tempo (Montemor-o-Novo), Teatro Nacional D. Maria II (Lisboa) and Teatro Viriato (Viseu).
Olga, Masha and Irina live in an inner city in Russia. Bored with the day-to-day life of the province, which isolates them and castrates their dreams, they want more than anything to return to Moscow, their homeland, at the time of their transitions.
Based on a post-contemporary and multidisciplinary reading of Chekhov’s classic Three Sisters, this creation presents a new narrative, reformulating the concept of family by highlighting the trans identities and subjectivities of these new sisters, in the aspirations of the original characters and in their positions in current society.
The original text is about loneliness and helplessness, a period portrait of the bankruptcy of the family structure and the bourgeoisie, which finds an echo in contemporary social construction and in the way it questions new identities.
In this version, Tita Maravilha combines the literary structure of a classic with fictional autobiographies – of her and of the interpreters – setting the stage for contemporary avant-garde struggles and providing a political debate about – and of – trans bodies.