Hard act to follow in staging a return

Twenty years after his play Three Sisters Waiting for Godot flopped, director Lin Zhaohua is seeking to revive his work for modern audiences. Chen Nan reports.

In 1998, one of the nation's most renowned theater directors, Lin Zhaohua, premiered his play, Three Sisters Waiting for Godot, in which he combined Russian playwright Anton Chekhov's Three Sisters with Irish playwright Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot.

The director put the two scripts together and explored topics like "endless waiting" and "the vision of a happy future". However, the reception of the play from audiences left him disappointed.