The text they speak is Chekhov, but maybe this time the three sisters will actually escape to the big city.ĪTM also created The Pelican (Or 'For the Birds') based on August Strindberg's play and House/Wives: Notes on a Doll's House and The Stepford Wives. The three ladies haven't aged a day, but time has changed around them, as the modern music and the TVs showing "The Poseidon Adventure" and "Towering Inferno" attest. Olga, Masha and Irina have waited 100 years to get to Moscow and they're still not there. The play, which sets the Russian drama in a lounge bar where a live DJ spins trip-hop, ambient and techno music, plays Center Stage through Sept.
With her modern directorial approach, Athina Kasiou recreates the Chekhovian universe for today, based on Eri Kyrgia’s new translation of an adaptation by Joel Horwood, and assisted by a superb team of distinguished creatives and actors.The Three Sisters of Anton Chekhov's famous play are still waiting to get to Moscow in 2001 in 3 Sisters Lounge, the latest classical theatre adaptation from off-off-Broadway's Alternative Theatre Machine, opening Sept. Inhibitions, fears, and inner intentions are betrayed not through what is said but rather through pauses, silences, hints and subtle humour. As the future approaches, the possibility of change becomes more remote and their choices more constrained, while the dreams of youth dissolve, and excitement and passion for love and life is replaced by a sense of frustration.Ĭhekhov gives his characters the ultimate responsibility for their own lives. Bogged down in the boredom of their everyday lives, they are trapped in recollections of a glorious past, making up stories and awaiting their return to Moscow, where their dreams can be fulfilled. In a small provincial garrison town, far from Moscow, the three sisters – Olga, Masha, and Irina – live together with their brother Andrey. Written in 1900 and described by the author himself as a comedy, Three Sisters is a four-act existential drama about expectation, anticipation, and loss of hope.
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