Three Sisters Two

Synopsis

Three Sisters Two continues the story of Cheknov's Three Sisters - still living in the same provincial city, but in a Russia now ruled by Lenin and his Bolsheviks. While Civil War rages outside, Olga, Irina, Natasha, Andrey and Vershinin wait in anticipation for Masha to return to the family home. Life in 1920, after the Russian Revolution, is very different for the Prozorov sisters from what it had been in 1900 and they now occupy only a small portion of their old home. But the news that Masha brings will change all of their lives forever. Comedy and pathos, laughter and tears are never far away as old relationships are re-discovered and new hopes and dreams expressed.

Our Review:

12 March 2002

It's an ambitious step to embark upon a sequel to a world famous classic, but South African playwright Reza De Wet has been fairly successful in her follow-up to Anton Chekhov's Three Sisters with which this intriguing new play is running in repertoire.

As the Prozorov sisters disappeared from Chekhov's world, it was the dawn of the 20th century; when we meet them once again, it is 1920 and Russia is in thrall to the Bolsheviks. Vershinin (Jeffrey Wickham), Masha's former lover, and Igor (Timothy Watson), a beleaguered dramatist are living under the protection of Andrey, now a plump, disillusioned town councillor.

His sisters Olga (Anna Carteret) and Irina (Kim Thomson) remain at home - Olga wearied by life's vicissitudes, Irina still clinging to the optimism of old - with inertia and disappointed hopes generally the order of the day. It's not until the return from Moscow of the third sister, glamorous Masha ([Belinda Lang...

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