Three Sisters

Three Sisters (Tri Sestry)

    Alternative Title: The Three Sisters

    Author: Anton Chekhov

    First Performance: 1901, Moscow

    Published: 1901

    First English Translation: 1916

    Genre: Drama in 4 acts; Russian prose

    Setting: The Prozorovs' house and garden, Russian provincial town, 1900

    Cast: 9m, 5f, extras

The Prozorovs, Andrey and his three sisters, live out a tedious existence in the provinces, brought there when their late father was posted from Moscow 11 years previously. Andrey is engaged to a boorish and grasping local girl Natasha. The eldest sister Olga is a schoolteacher, still unmarried at the age of 28. The second daughter Masha is unhappily married to a boring schoolmaster, and the youngest Irina is celebrating her twentieth birthday. Guests come to the...

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