Three Sisters (Ruhl)
by Sarah Ruhl

Name: Three Sisters (Ruhl)
Brand: Sarah Ruhl
SKU: 9780573702976
Rating: 3.91 (32 reviews)

Three Sisters (Ruhl) Book Cover — Three Sisters (Ruhl) Cover

Highlights

Female

Male

120 mins1900-1910Strong Role for Leading Woman (Star Vehicle)Interior SetPeriod Costumes

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	Gender	Age	Description
Masha	—	—	—
Irina	—	—	—
Andrei Their brother	male	—	Their brother
Natasha His wife	female	—	His wife
Kulygin Masha’s husband	male	—	Masha’s husband
Vershinin A colonel	—	—	A colonel
Solyony A staff captain	—	—	A staff captain
Chebutykin An army doctor	—	—	An army doctor
Tuzenbach A baron and lieutenant	—	—	A baron and lieutenant
Anfisa A nurse, 80 years old	—	—	A nurse, 80 years old
Fedotik Second lieutenant	—	—	Second lieutenant
Rode Second lieutenant	—	—	Second lieutenant
Ferapont An old watchman	—	—	An old watchman
Olga	—	—	—