Three Sisters – A Story from the Climate Future is an exploration of how people carry on in a dislocated world, suffering from the impact of climate change and repeated pandemics. 

Set in rural Scotland in the late 2030s, co-creators James Marriott and Lena Šimić have used the structure and sensibility of Anton Chekhov’s Three Sisters – a dissection of isolation, longing, and family ties – to explore a thriving community set up against the backdrop of social and ecological collapse.

But after 15 years of weathering storms, floods, and lockdowns, can this community survive itself? 

In partnership with the British Academy and Edge Hill University from 2024 to 2026, we held a series of collective listening events with this work exploring how to create temporary enactments of community and provoke participants to think about strengthening the communities within which they live.

Find out more about the collective listening events and our recommendations here.