Three Sisters

Synopsis

Stranded in a remote provincial town, three sisters dream of returning to the Moscow of their youth. When a military garrison arrives nearby,the officers become their guests and suddenly a new life seems to be within reach. Liaisons develop, love is in the air and hopes run high - but the sisters reckon without the weakness of their brother, the grasping ambitions of his wife, and the strange eccentricities of a certain lieutenant. An explosion is brewing and matters come to a head on a frantic night of fire.

Our Review:

30 August 2001

In the 100th anniversary of the first production of Chekhov's masterpiece, Brien Friel's adaptation certainly does not move an audience in the way that the author must have intended.

The play takes place in the provincial army town in which the Prozorov sisters and their brother Andrey live. Olga (Sophie Ward), the oldest, is a high school teacher; Masha (Janie Dee) is unhappily married to a teacher in the same school; and Irina (Susannah Wise) and Andrey (Richard Henders) have dreams of moving back to Moscow. Vershinin (Michael Siberry) the new Army commander, joins the group of military hangers-on around the Prozorov home, a group that also includes the ineffectual doctor, Chebutykin (amusingly played by David Ryall), who lets everyone know that he has forgotten all the medicine he ever knew.

As time passes, Andrey marries Natasha (strikingly performed by Hermione Gulliford) and is reduced to a gambling-addictive basket case, while Natasha has babies and...

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