Three Sisters - Softcover

Ruhl, Sarah; Chekhov, Anton; Thoron, Elise

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0573702977 ISBN 13: 9780573702976

Publisher: Samuel French Ltd, 2015

Synopsis

Transplanted from their beloved Moscow to a provincial Russian town, three sisters-school teacher Olga, unhappily married Masha, idealistic Irina-yearn for the city of their childhood, where they imagine their lives will be transformed and fulfilled. Three Sisters is the portrait of a family grappling with the bittersweet distance between reality and dreams.

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Review

Zestier and more colloquial than most translations Letts' main achievement here is to make Chekhov more emotional, accessible and active. Chris Jones, Chicago Tribune
A no-nonsense script by Pulitzer and Tony Award-winning Tracy Letts that blends compassion with tough love. Repeatedly, Letts delivers heartbreak on cue 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. Lawrence Bommer, Chicago Theater Beat
"Highly recommended... Fascinating revival... has a speed and light, a sharpness and edgy heart that make it newly compelling." Chicago Sun-Times
Refreshingly blunt, provocative. Sam Hurwitt, The Reporter
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"Zestier and more colloquial than most translations... Letts' main achievement here is to make Chekhov more emotional, accessible and active." - Chris Jones, Chicago Tribune

"A no-nonsense script by Pulitzer and Tony Award-winning Tracy Letts that blends compassion with tough love. Repeatedly, Letts delivers heartbreak on cue... 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." - Lawrence Bommer, Chicago Theater Beat

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

"Refreshingly blunt, provocative." - Sam Hurwitt, The Reporter

About the Author

Born in Belfast in 1981, Lucy Caldwell read English at Queens' College, Cambridge and is a graduate of Goldsmith's MA in Creative & Life Writing. She is the author the novels Where They Were Missed (2006) and The Meeting Point (2011), which featured on BBC Radio 4's Book at Bedtime and was awarded the Dylan Thomas Prize. Her stage plays, Leaves, Guardians, and Notes to Future Self, and radio dramas, Girl From Mars, Avenues of Eternal Peace, Witch Week, have won awards including the George Devine Award and the Imison Award. In 2011 she was awarded the Rooney Prize for Irish Literature for her body of work to date.

Edition details

• Publisher: Samuel French Ltd
• Publication date: 2015
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0573702977
• ISBN 13: 9780573702976
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 98