Word: budberg
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Jane Greenwood's costumes and Thomas Skelton's lighting are always fitting. There are at least a dozen widely known translations of The Three Sisters, but none of them was selected for this production. Kahn is using a version by Moura Budberg, of whom I know nothing at all. Her translation is viable enough, though there are a few things she has not got quite right, and at times some dictional touches that seem a bit too modern for a late-nineteenth-century milieu...
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