As we posted earlier Emma won a role on Brown University Workshop Production piece “Three Sisters”. The play went for a two day stint and due to the inclusion of Emma, only staff and students at Brown were allowed to go view the piece. Brown Daily Herald recently released a short review of the play – Emma’s excerpts have been included below.

The three sisters — Olga, Masha and Irina, played by Caroline Straty ’10, Lily Garrison ’10 and Emma Watson ’13, respectively — draw audiences in during the opening scene and never let them go. [...] And Watson’s young and naive Irina appears both powerful and helpless. She is determined to return to Moscow, to work for her living, to be happy. But no matter what she does, she is left dissatisfied.

The three may appear static at first, but their complexity and contradictions keep audience members on the edges of their seats. The characters are full of shades of gray, and it is these shadows that make “Three Sisters” truly come to life as the audience discovers the characters’ desires, relationships and motivations.

[...] Max Posner ’11, who plays the sisters’ brother Andrey, added that though “Three Sisters” is a play often covered in literature classes, “from an intellectual point of view, acting in this play is useless. I can’t play a broken shell of a man.” Instead, the actors had to discover aspects about their characters’ humanity extending beyond their conventional symbolism, oftentimes glossed over in academia.

“Each of the sisters is perceived as possessing one characteristic,” Garrison said. “You have to find the bridge between yourself and your horrendously bitchy character.”

[...] Irina’s love interests — the moody Solyony and the young, affable Baron, played respectively by Gerrit Thurston ’13 and Ned Riseley ’12 — both deliver strong performances that highlight Irina’s despair. Both men may love her, but she cannot commit herself fully to either, for her one true desire is to get to Moscow. source

The Sun also reported on the play, but incorrectly cast Emma into the wrong role. They did have a few short quippy responses to Emma’s acting, though:

A source said: “Emma was nervous beforehand but was faultless in her role.

“She has been juggling coursework with rehearsals and learning lines so she’s had a lot on her plate.”

[...] A source added: “Emma was over the moon that every show was a full house. She also made some new friends while doing it.” source

Congratulations to Emma and we at i♥watson.net wish her the very best in her future theatre endeavours!