Three Sisters, set in a rural backwater of Russia at the end of the
nineteenth century, is a play about dreams, hope, work and love.
The sisters of the title dream of returning to Moscow, where their
lives, they are certain, will be happier; in the meantime, the
eldest and youngest, Olga and Irina, seek solace in work and the
middle sister, Masha, married to the local schoolmaster, embarks on
a hopeless but passionate affair with Vershinin, commander of the
local army battery. Years pass, and their brother Andrei's wife,
Natasha, slowly but inexorably ousts Olga and Irina from their
family home as well as draining all life and hope from Andrei
himself. At the end, rootless and loveless, the sisters face a
bleak future with only one certainty: we cannot understand life, we
must just endure it. Christopher Hampton's version of Chekhov's
classic tragicomedy captures both the light, comic naturalism of
its dialogue and the poetic melancholy of its atmosphere, a firm
sense of the play's period balancing perfectly with a very modern
clarity and economy of expression. It premi red at the Playhouse
Theatre in 2003 with Kristin Scott-Thomas, Robert Bathurst, James
Fleet and Eric Sykes among a distinguished cast.
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