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The Three Sisters by Anton Chekov Theatre: Tusenbach, The Three Sisters, National Theatre Company, Old Vic Theatre, 1967. Film: Andrei, The Three Sisters, American Film Theatre, 1974.
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The Three Sisters by Anton Chekov Theatre: Tusenbach, The Three Sisters, National Theatre Company, Old Vic Theatre, 1967. Film: Andrei, The Three Sisters, American Film Theatre, 1974.
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| Plot Summary: In a small Russian town at the turn of the century, three sisters (Olga, Irina, and Masha) and their brother Andrei live but dream daily of their return to their former home in Moscow, where life is charming and stimulating meaningful. But for now they exist in a malaise of dissatisfaction. Soldiers from the local military post provide them some companionship and society, but nothing can suffice to replace Moscow in their hopes. Andrei marries a provincial girl, Natasha, and begins to settle into a life of much less meaning than he had hoped. Natasha begins to run the family her way. Masha, though married, yearns for the sophisticated life and begins a dalliance with Vershinin, an army officer with a sick and suicidal wife. Even Irina, the freshest, most optimistic of the sisters, begins to waver in her dreams until, finally, tragedy strikes...from IMDB |
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| The Life of Anton Chekhov Anton Chekhov was born on January 17th, 1860 in Taganrog, a Russian port 600 miles south of Moscow. His father, Paul, was a grocer, and ardent church-goer and a strict disciplinarian, beating his children on a daily basis. At sixteen Chekhov found himself alone in Taganrog after his bankrupt father fled to Moscow, soon followed by the rest of the family. Chekhov had to stay to finish his education. He spent the next three years impoverished but free of his father’s influence, later rejoining his family in Moscow where he was to study medicine. To contribute to his family’s income, Chekhov started to write comic sketches for journals. Soon he had a cult following, was promoted in 1882 to Oskolki (“Fragments”), a prominent comic magazine, and then to a daily newspaper, The St. Petersburg Gazette. In 1884 he graduated as a doctor and was to practice erratically until 1899. The turning point in his career came when he started to write short stories for Novoye vremya (“New Time”), St. Petersburg’s largest daily newspaper, and owned by the millionaire publisher Alexis Suvorin, a vital advocate of Chekhov’s work. He now became a national literary figure. Ivanov (1887) was his first play to be produced but had a mixed reception. Subsequently, The Wood Demon (1889), from the embers of which emerged Uncle Vanya and The Seagull (1895) were produced with the same indifferent response from the press and public. It was not until the Moscow Art Theatre in 1898 began producing his work with a revival of The Seagull that Chekhov felt that his plays were at least being approached from the right direction. Uncle Vanya (1896), The Three Sisters (1900) and The Cherry Orchard (1903) were all premiered by the Moscow Art Theatre. Throughout his life, Chekhov was plagued by ill health and in 1904 he succumbed to tuberculosis. |
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