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Three Sisters (Paperback)
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Three Sisters (Paperback)
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Loot Price R133
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Three Sisters (1900) is a drama in four acts by Russian playwright
and short story writer Anton Chekhov. It was first performed at the
Moscow Art Theatre in 1901, directed by acclaimed actor Konstantin
Stanislavski-who also played the role of Aleksandr Ignatyevich
Vershinin, a philosophizing artillery officer in love with middle
Prozorov sister Masha. Reviews were mixed at first, but as the play
continued to run, Three Sisters became a popular success, acclaimed
by audiences and critics alike. The play follows the Provorov
family, focusing on sisters Olga, Masha, and Irina, as well as
their brother Andrei. Each character struggles to balance their
secret ambitions while facing the daily circumstances of reality.
Olga, the oldest sister, is an unmarried schoolteacher who often
finds herself responsible for the lives and happiness of others.
Masha, the middle sister, is unhappily married to the kind Latin
teacher Fyodor Kulygin, who knows about her affair with
Lieutenant-Colonel Vershinin but continues to love and care for
her. Irina, the youngest, is a vain and childish woman engaged to a
man she respect but does not love. Andrei is initially an ambitious
and energetic young man whose ill-fated marriage ruins not only his
prospects of becoming a professor in Moscow, but his will to live
as a man with any sense of self-respect. Natasha, who begins as an
orphaned young woman unfit for high society, eventually emerges as
a manipulative, envious woman whose love for her two children is
matched only by her will to control the lives of the entire
Prozorov family. Three Sisters by Anton Chekhov is a brilliant
drama whose complex characters make us believe, for a time, in an
art more real than life. With a beautifully designed cover and
professionally typeset manuscript, this edition of Anton Chekhov's
Three Sisters is a classic of Russian literature reimagined for
modern readers.
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