“The characters in Three Sisters don’t know they’re in a play. The characters in No Sisters know they’re in two plays and know they have an audience.”

A clever retelling of Shakespeare’s problem play that pits two groups of people victimized in antebellum D.C.– and two people profiting from it– against each other.

Director Aaron Posner uses almost every tool in his bag of tricks to make this play not just zip along, but crackle with energy and wit.

Aaron Posner’s take on Anton Chekhov’s The Seagull is what you get from a writer who not only adores the material he’s adapting, but understands it precisely.