Three Sisters (Ruhl)
by Sarah Ruhl
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Synopsis
Transplanted from their beloved Moscow to a provincial Russian town, three sisters – school teacher Olga, unhappily married Masha and 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.
Press Reviews
"Sarah Ruhl has a taste for and a way with the classics."
— The New York Times
"Sarah Ruhl's smart new translation... feels just right to contemporary American ears – lean, colloquial and conversation for us, and true to Chekhov's original."
— Cincinnati Enquirer
"Exhilirating! Ruhl doesn't call attention to herself here. Instead she lets the play breathe with a smiple, unmannered approach to the drama that makes it seem shockingly contemporary... There's a naturalness to the way the drama unfolds, the ebb and flow of the emotional outbursts, that leaves you breathless."
— San Jose Mercury News
"Luminous!... A crisp, breezy new English version by Sarah Ruhl. Its fierce beauty suffuses every moment and reaches for immortality."
— San Francisco Chronicle
"Three Sisters reminds us that few writers have ever seen into the human soul with more acuity and understanding than Chekhov."
— Boston.com
Characters
| Character |
|---|
Masha |
Irina |
Andrei Their brother |
Natasha His wife |
Kulygin Masha’s husband |
Vershinin A colonel |
Solyony A staff captain |
Chebutykin An army doctor |
Tuzenbach A baron and lieutenant |
Anfisa A nurse, 80 years old |
Fedotik Second lieutenant |
Rode Second lieutenant |
Ferapont An old watchman |
Olga |
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Three Sisters (Ruhl) at Yale Rep
Publication
Three Sisters (Ruhl) is a play written by Sarah Ruhl and published by Samuel French (2015).
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Samuel French · 2015 · 96 pp
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