Robert Kropf's Adaptation of 3SISTERS to Play The Modern

The Suffolk University Theatre Department welcomes guest-director, esteemed actor, Artistic Director of the Harbor Stage Company, and long-time colleague Robert Kropf to the Modern Theatre this fall. Kropf's adaptation of Anton Chekhov's 3Sisters will run November 16-19.

Kropf's 3Sisters celebrates Chekhov's humor and loving vision of human endurance against the backdrop of a near-future, post-apocalyptic Middle America.

18 Suffolk students are featured in this re-imagining of Chekhov's iconic play. Scenic design by Suffolk Professor Richard Wadsworth Chambers features the arching beams of a once stately library still resiliently intact after withstanding a cataclysmic event.

Says Kropf: "Of all of Chekhov's plays, Three Sisters has instantly become my favorite. First from reading it, but especially from writing it- this new version. It has everything. It's achingly human, filled with longing and passion and desperation and humor. But it really is the humanity that's the thing. These people [the characters] are so recognizable and identifiable and flawed. It's an ideal mix of poetry and real life. And to bring the play to life in this incredibly nurturing, wildly creative environment that the Suffolk Theatre Department is, as I've come to know intimately over the years from working with the students and at the Modern- it's just a perfect fit. It's a very special, fertile program and the kind of students it attracts are the type of artists I'm interested in working with. They're sharp, hands on, inventive, courageous and sincere. And the entire Suffolk team from design to administration, are as supportive and on point as you could ever hope to work with."

Anton Chekhov's 3Sisters is a production of the Suffolk University Theatre Department and will run in the Modern Theatre from November 16 to 19.

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IF YOU GO:

Anton Chekhov's 3Sisters
A new version adapted and directed by Robert Kropf

November 16-19, 2017
Thurs., Fri., & Sat. @ 8PM
Sun. & Sat. @ 3pm

Performances take place at the Modern Theatre at Suffolk University, 525 Washington Street, Boston, MA 02111.

General Admission: $15 | $10 (students with valid I.D).
Call 866-811-4111 or visit www.moderntheatre.com.

2019: Moscow, Illinois. In the wake of a global disaster, a few survivors have taken refuge in the ruins of a decimated library. When they stumble upon Chekhov's masterpiece, this ill-fated population brings the play to life as a final act of resilience, courage and hope.

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The Suffolk University Theatre Department is a student-centered department. Students write, direct, and design their own original plays and intern with leading theatre companies, both at Suffolk's Modern Theatre and with organizations throughout the United States. Students work in classic, musical, and experimental genres with a special focus on new work. In 1987, founding Artistic Director Marilyn Plotkins created the Boston Music Theatre Project (BMTP) to nurture new musicals of exceptional promise through readings and workshop productions.

Suffolk University, located in historic downtown Boston, with an international campus in Madrid, is a student-centered institution distinguished by excellence in education and scholarship. Suffolk University offers a wide range of undergraduate and graduate programs in more than 90 areas of study. Its mission is to empower graduates to be successful locally, regionally, and globally.

The Modern Theatre at Suffolk University is the newest performance space in the Washington Street Theater District. The grand facade of the historic theater, Boston's first designed specifically for showing movies, has been painstakingly restored and reconstructed as part of the Modern Theatre and residence hall development. Inside, an intimate jewel-box theater showcases central design elements that are a modernization of some of the most distinctive historic features of the 1914 theater. The state-of-the-art, 185-seat venue is ideal for live performances, conversations, readings and film screenings and promotes excellence and innovation through all of its programming. For more about these and other programs at the Modern visit www.moderntheatre.com. The Modern Theatre is managed and programmed by the Theatre Department at Suffolk University www.suffolk.edu/theatre.

ROBERT KROPF (Adapter/Director) is Artistic Director of Harbor Stage Company [www.harborstage.org] and divides his time between Cambridge & Wellfleet, Massachusetts. Adapting/directing credits include: The Seagull, Uncle Vanya, Hedda Gabler, A Doll's House, Miss Julie, and Ingmar Bergman's Persona. Theatre credits include American Repertory Theatre, Yale Cabaret, WHAT, Illinois Shakespeare Festival, New Repertory Theater, & produced at the Boston Center for the Arts. Other directing credits include Glengarry Glen Ross, Waiting For Godot, Body Awareness, The Storytelling Ability of a Boy, Someone Who'll Watch Over Me, & Bloody Poetry- among others. As an actor he was most recently seen at Harbor Stage Company as Roma in Glengarry Glen Ross, as well as in Hedda Gabler, Sticks & Bones, Fool For Love, Uncle Vanya, Sister Play, A Doll's House, Northside Hollow, Detroit, The Kritik, & The River.

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