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Front Row: Inua Ellams on Three Sisters, Noah Baumbach on Marriage Story, Art goes Bananas

06/12/2019

Inua Ellams on Three Sisters, Noah Baumbach on Marriage Story, Art goes Bananas

BBC Radio 4 - Front Row, Inua Ellams on Three Sisters, Noah Baumbach on Marriage Story, Art goes Bananas

Inua Ellams on transposing Chekhov's Three Sisters to 1960s Nigeria.

Inua Ellams on his new version of Chekhov's Three Sisters and Noah Baumbach on his award-winning film about divorce, Marriage Story. Plus why the art world is going bananas.

Inua Ellams, writer of the hit play Barber Shop Chronicles, has transposed Chekhov's Three Sisters to 1960s Nigeria, on the brink of the Biafran Civil War. His new version of Three Sisters is at London's National Theatre.

Two bananas taped to a wall with duct tape have just been sold for $120,000 each at the Art Basel fair in Miami. These works of art were created by Maurizio Cattelan, whose 18 carat gold toilet was stolen from Blenheim Palace recently. So has the artworld gone bananas? Art critic Louisa Buck gives her view. 

Marriage Story, which stars Adam Driver and Scarlett Johansson as a divorcing couple, has just swept the board at the Gotham Awards and is a frontrunner for BAFTAs and Oscars. As it is released onto Netflix, Stig talks to writer-director Noah Baumbach. 

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