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THREE SISTERS - ANTON PAVLOVICH CHEKHOV KARTONI...

You'd be hard put to find a better script to work with than this translation by Michael Frayn .
. . It sticks rigorously to the inner thrust of the play while giving it a fresh  crisp clarity
that makes it not just accessible but compelling to watch. The underlying tragedy . . . is
intact. It is made more moving  not less  by the way Frayn's ineffably light touch has caught
too the comedy of Andrey and his three sisters.' GUARDIAN 'Frayn puts well the central
statement of this most moving of dramas: it is about the irony of the hopes by which people
live and the way their destiny mocks them. Chekhov shows how life is both nourished and
poisoned by the act of hope itself' DAILY TELEGRAPH Following their father's death  life for
sisters Olga  Masha and Irina in a Russian provincial garrison town has become unbearably dull.
They feel they have become culturally  romantically and intellectually starved. To these
sisters  Moscow  where they once lived and in spite of its sad memories  has become a symbol of
unfulfilled hope  promises and opportunity  and one which contrasts with the tedium of their
own lives and circumstances. The sisters' main hope of moving to Moscow depends on their
brother  Andrey  with his ambitions to work in academia in Moscow. Set over three and a half
years at the turn of the twentieth century  and premiered at the Moscow Art Theatre in 1901 
Chekhov's play has become among the most iconic in modern theatre. This translation is by
Michael Frayn  one of today's most eminent British playwrights and translators of Russian
drama. Commentary and notes by Nick Worrall.

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