The Three Sisters | Three Sisters (review) in Commonweal

In the following review, the author summarizes The Three Sisters through the character's unique personalities.

The Prozorov sisters' much desired and eternally thwarted journey to Moscow gleams through Anton Chekhov's Three Sisters like Zeno's arrow in reverse: as time goes by, the distance between the sisters and their dream city increases, though in Act 1 they appear to be on the verge of arriving, and though they would arrive if it were possible to dose a gap with pure longing.

A scene from John Gielgud's production of The Three...

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