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Three Sisters (Letts)

  • Tracy Letts
  • Full Length Play, Drama, 1900-1910
  • 9M, 5F
  • ISBN: 9780573705373

"Highly recommended... Fascinating revival... has a speed and light, a sharpness and edgy heart that make it newly compelling."

Chicago Sun-Times

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Description

  • Full Length Play
  • Drama
  • 120 minutes

  • Time Period: 1900-1910
  • Target Audience: Adult
  • Set Requirements: Unit Set/Multiple Settings
  • Cautions: Strong Language

  • Performance Group:
  • Community Theatre, College Theatre / Student, Professional Theatre, Blackbox / Second Stage /Fringe Groups
The Prozorov sisters pine for Moscow. Culture and life brim in the city center, while they live among the mundane of a crumbling army garrison after their father's death. Though living with their brother Andrey, nothing keeps them back but their own misfortune, decisions, and the inertia of negativity that continues to follow this family.
REVIEWS:

"To his great credit, Letts hasn't tried to make his script stand out but rather to erase the misplaced reverence of most Chekov translations. The effect reveals the colors and original intent beneath, including Chekhov's underappreciated humor."

 The Oregonian

"I've seen over a dozen Three Sisters, but never has the final scene of the sisters' solidarity after all the blows we see them suffer registered so hard. It's the cumulative effect of 150 minutes of searing truth-telling -- from Letts, who knows family dysfunction as only the author of August: Osage County can."

 Chicago Theater Beat

"Letts' revision... should make believes even out of those playgoers who avoid Chekhov."

 Stage and Cinema

"Highly recommended... Fascinating revival... has a speed and light, a sharpness and edgy heart that make it newly compelling."

 Chicago Sun-Times

Premiere Production: Three Sisters premiered at Artists Repertory Theater in Portland, OR in May 2009, under the direction of John Kretzu.

Characters

  • Casting: 9M, 5F
  • Casting Attributes: Parts for Senior Actors

  • ANDREY PROZOROV
    NATASHA - his fiance, later his wife
    OLGA - his sister
    MASHA - his sister
    IRINIA - his sister
    KULYGIN - Masha's husband, a high school teacher
    VERSHININ - a lieutenant-colonel, the battery commander
    BARON TUSENBACH - first lieutenant
    SOLYONY - captain
    CHEBUTYKIN - army doctor
    FEDOTIK - second lieutenant
    RODE - second lieutenant
    FERAPONT - watchman form the district council, an old man
    ANFISA - the Prozorov's nurse

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    The Prozorov sisters pine for Moscow. Culture and life brim in the city center, while they live among the mundane of a crumbling army garrison after their father's death. Though living with their brother Andrey, nothing keeps them back but their own misfortune, decisions, and the inertia of negativity that continues to follow this family.

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