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Three Sisters

Preserving the text of the play, the amazing dialogues, the brilliant characters, we have transposed the action into today’s Russian provinces and changed only one thing: the age of the heroes. In Anton Chekhov’s play the heroines are aged around 25; now they are 55. What does that do? The heroes’ retorts, stylistically inappropriate from today’s twenty-year-olds, are absolutely organic for the older generation, the ‘Soviet’ intelligentsia. The problems of Chekhov’s classical work concerning the search for a meaning in life, the loss of ideals, the fear before death without having achieved anything in the world, the desire to be useful to others – all these things are also a typical attribute of the Soviet intelligentsia.

Top Cast

  • Lyudmila Polyakova

    Lyudmila Polyakova

  • Anna Kamenkova

    Anna Kamenkova

  • Irina Mazurkevich

    Irina Mazurkevich

  • Maksim Sukhanov

    Maksim Sukhanov

  • Aleksandr Baluev

    Aleksandr Baluev

  • Aleksandra Nazarova

    Aleksandra Nazarova

    Anfisa, nanny

  • Igor Korovin

    Igor Korovin

    abbe

  • Igor Yasulovich

    Igor Yasulovich

  • Igor Yatsko

    Igor Yatsko

Overview

Preserving the text of the play, the amazing dialogues, the brilliant characters, we have transposed the action into today’s Russian provinces and changed only one thing: the age of the heroes. In Anton Chekhov’s play the heroines are aged around 25; now they are 55. What does that do? The heroes’ retorts, stylistically inappropriate from today’s twenty-year-olds, are absolutely organic for the older generation, the ‘Soviet’ intelligentsia. The problems of Chekhov’s classical work concerning the search for a meaning in life, the loss of ideals, the fear before death without having achieved anything in the world, the desire to be useful to others – all these things are also a typical attribute of the Soviet intelligentsia.

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