Masha, the middle Prozorov sister, is about to leave the dull party when a new Lieutenant-Colonel, Vershinin, is introduced. One solider, Baron Tuzenbakh, shares Irina’s idealization of labor, and they discuss their longing to work someday. Several soldiers and an elderly family friend, Chebutykin, come to visit for the name-day celebration. Olga and Irina both hope they will soon move back to their beloved hometown of Moscow. In contrast to last year’s snowy, sorrowful day, today’s weather is sunny, and the sisters, especially Irina, feel hopeful.

The youngest, 20-year-old Irina, is celebrating her name-day, and the eldest, 28-year-old Olga, recalls their father’s death one year ago today. Ben Brantley, New York Times This lucid interpretation rewards with its deep understanding of a complex play.On May 5th, the three Prozorov sisters sit in their drawing-room in a Russian provincial capital. Review Quotes Wonderfully fresh and affecting. From the Back Cover The play focuses on the lives of three sisters, Olga, Masha, and Irina, young women of the Russian gentry who try to fill their days in order to construct a life that feels meaningful while surrounded by an array of military men, servants, husbands, suitors, and lovers, all of whom constitute a distractions from the passage of time and from the sisters desire to return to their beloved Moscow. Recipient of an NEA fellowship and of a doctorate in Russian from Harvard University, his translations, adaptations and original plays have been performed across the country. PAUL SCHMIDT edited Meyerhold at Work and has translated writings by Rimbaud, Khlebnikov, Gogol, Kaiser, Mayakovsky and Genet. The Moscow Art Theaters stagings of The Seagull, Uncle Vanya, The Cherry Orchard and Three Sisters - under the direction of Konstantin Stanislavsky - secured Chekhovs reputation as a world-class dramatist. ANTON CHEKHOV (1860-1904) led a double life as a practicing physician and a celebrated author of short stories and plays. In Paul Schmidts version - the basis for the Wooster Groups acclaimed adaptation Brace Up! - we can perceive, for the first time in English, a refreshingly clear and colloquial style we instinctively know as Chekhovs own. With Three Sisters (1901), his portrait of the Prozorov familys elusive dream of returning from the provinces to an idealized Moscow, he captured a restlessness and yearning which remain enduringly modern.

David Rooney, Hollywood Reporter The works of Russias greatest playwright, Anton Chekhov, masterfully blend comedy and pathos, creating a richness of texture and characterization rarely seen since Shakespeare. Ben Brantley, New York Times This lucid interpretation rewards with its deep understanding of a complex play. Book Synopsis Wonderfully fresh and affecting.

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