NORTHERN Broadsides and the celebrated playwright, novelist and poet Blake Morrison are set to put a Yorkshire spin on Chekhov’s Three Sisters next week when they come to Dorset with We are Three Sisters.

This exciting new production, directed by Northern Broadsides artistic director Barrie Rutter, is set against the backdrop of a dark, remote northern town, three remarkable young women live their lives brightly.

It is, of course, Haworth in the 1840s where, in a gloomy parsonage without curtains nor comforts, Charlotte, Anne and Emily Bronte light up their world with outspoken wit, aspirations, dreams and ideas.

And throughout their confined and intense lives, they write.

Anyone who has read a Bronte novel cannot fail to be stirred by their overwhelming humanity, charged emotion and brooding, prescient unease with the status quo.

With exquisitely drawn characterisations, a nod to Chekhov and a touch of poetic licence, We Are Three Sisters, is a pearl of a play which evokes with piercing clarity the life and distinct personalities of these three spirited individuals.

Blake first came up with the idea a decade ago after being approached by a friend.

He said: “When I started work on it I half-filled a book with thoughts, then put it away and came back to it a year ago.

“My worry was that people who love Chekhov and know it would be horrified and that people who know the Brontes’ work would also be horrified because I have taken a certain amount of dramatic license.

“But luckily the critics and, more importantly, the audiences have taken to it. I have also been lucky with the cast, who are great.”

The cast of We are Three Sisters features Sophia Di Martino, who is best known to television audiences for playing Polly Emmerson in Casualty and Becky Hindley (the stalker Charlotte Hoyle in Coronation Street.

They appear alongside comedian and actor Duggie Brown, Rebecca Hutchinson, Catherine Kinsella, Barrie Rutter, John Branwell, Marc Parry, Gareth Cassidy and Eileen O’Brien.

A great supporter of the work of Northern Broadsides, Blake Morrison has translated and adapted five hugely successful plays, which were all commissioned and performed by the company.

We Are Three Sisters is at Lighthouse, Poole from Tuesday, October 11 to Saturday 15 at 7.30pm with 2.30pm matinees on Wednesday and Saturday.

Call 0844 406 8666 or visit lighthousepoole.co.uk for bookings and further details.