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Three Sisters

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You''d be hard put to find a better script to work with than this translation by Michael Frayn . . . It sticks rigorously to the inner thrust of the play while giving it a fresh, crisp clarity that makes it not just accessible but compelling to watch. The underlying tragedy . . . is intact. It is made more moving, not less, by the way Frayn''s ineffably light touch has caught too the comedy of Andrey and his three sisters.'' GUARDIAN ''Frayn puts well the central statement of this most moving of dramas: it is about the irony of the hopes by which people live and the way their destiny mocks them. Chekhov shows how life is both nourished and poisoned by the act of hope itself'' DAILY TELEGRAPH Following their father''s death, life for sisters Olga, Masha and Irina in a Russian provincial garrison town has become unbearably dull. They feel they have become culturally, romantically and intellectually starved. To these sisters, Moscow, where they once lived and in spite of its sad memories, has become a symbol of unfulfilled hope, promises and opportunity, and one which contrasts with the tedium of their own lives and circumstances. The sisters'' main hope of moving to Moscow depends on their brother, Andrey, with his ambitions to work in academia in Moscow.Set over three and a half years at the turn of the twentieth century, and premiered at the Moscow Art Theatre in 1901, Chekhov''s play has become among the most iconic in modern theatre.This translation is by Michael Frayn, one of today''s most eminent British playwrights and translators of Russian drama.Commentary and notes by Nick Worrall.>

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Anton Chekhov

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Authors A. P. Chekhov, Anton Chekhov, Anton Pavlovich Chekhov, Chekhov Anton
Assisted by Chris Megson (Editor), Jenny Stevens (Editor), Michael Frayn (Translation)
Publisher Methuen Drama
 
Languages English
Product format Paperback
Released 06.03.2003
 
EAN 9780413771407
ISBN 978-0-413-77140-7
No. of pages 208
Dimensions 129 mm x 198 mm x 13 mm
Series Student Editions
Modern Plays
Student Editions
Subjects Fiction > Poetry, drama

DRAMA / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / Drama, Literary studies: plays & playwrights, Plays, Playscripts, Literary studies: plays and playwrights

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