Three Sisters (Tri Sewiry)

by Anton Chekhov, Lanford Wilson (Translator)

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781880399286
Publisher:	Smith & Kraus, Inc.
Publication date:	04/01/1994
Series:	Great Translations for Actors Series
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	82
Product dimensions:	5.38(w) x 8.49(h) x 0.27(d)

About the Author

Anton Chekhov (1860-1904) was a Russian author of plays and short stories. Although Chekhov became a physician and once considered medicine his primary career, he gained fame and esteem through writing, ultimately producing a number of well-known plays, including The Seagull and Uncle Vanya, and a large body of innovative short stories that influenced the evolution of the form.