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28 Mar 2001 – 30 Apr 2001March 2001
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Details
- Playwright
- Anton Chekhov
- Director
- Benedict Andrews
AddressWharf 1, Pier 4 Hickson Road, Walsh Bay, Sydney
"I think people should believe in something, or seek after truth, otherwise their lives are empty, just emptyÂ…To live without knowing why cranes fly, or why children are born, or why there are stars in the skyÂ…You either know why youÂ’re alive, or else itÂ’s all nonsense, absolutely pointlessÂ…"
Anton Chekhov, Three Sisters
When Chekhov wrote The Three Sisters, considered to be his masterpiece, in 1900-1901, the massive reform to come was simmering under the surface. By 1905 the Bloody Sunday massacre and the October Manifesto would send shockwaves under the monarchy, by 1917 the Revolution.
Living at the cusp of the twentieth century, the characters in Chekhov's plays are living in a time they are unable to define. One way of life has been concluded, another not yet begun. They are adrift between tenses – the memory of the past and the dream of the future.
Three Sisters is a timelapse of life passing and lives being passed by. The Prozorov sisters, Masha, Olga and Irina, live in a garrison town on the edge of Russia where they dream of work, sex, freedom and romance.
Like the migratory birds flying above their home, they ache to be elsewhere. Moscow.
This Moscow of theirs will bring them fulfilment, it is where they will find enduring love. It's a place where headaches will be cured, and restlessness finally cease. Moscow is their past and future, amulet, icon and grail.
On IrinaÂ’s name-day, a day of radiant sunshine, two figures appear in their lives, Vershinin and Natasha. Each will transform the family.
With its exquisitely layered clues and imagery, Three Sisters is resplendent with Chekhov's delicious observations, his playfulness and love of surprise. His characters suffer the decay of love and the ravages of time, but all the time he charges them, and us, to face the future with courage and hope.
"I am attracted to the lightness and fragility of Three Sisters. Time and loss are corrosive forces but the characters also seek escape, joy, laughter, dancing, fantasy...dreaming. They look to the horizon." Benedict Andrews, director
Anton Chekhov, Three Sisters
When Chekhov wrote The Three Sisters, considered to be his masterpiece, in 1900-1901, the massive reform to come was simmering under the surface. By 1905 the Bloody Sunday massacre and the October Manifesto would send shockwaves under the monarchy, by 1917 the Revolution.
Living at the cusp of the twentieth century, the characters in Chekhov's plays are living in a time they are unable to define. One way of life has been concluded, another not yet begun. They are adrift between tenses – the memory of the past and the dream of the future.
Three Sisters is a timelapse of life passing and lives being passed by. The Prozorov sisters, Masha, Olga and Irina, live in a garrison town on the edge of Russia where they dream of work, sex, freedom and romance.
Like the migratory birds flying above their home, they ache to be elsewhere. Moscow.
This Moscow of theirs will bring them fulfilment, it is where they will find enduring love. It's a place where headaches will be cured, and restlessness finally cease. Moscow is their past and future, amulet, icon and grail.
On IrinaÂ’s name-day, a day of radiant sunshine, two figures appear in their lives, Vershinin and Natasha. Each will transform the family.
With its exquisitely layered clues and imagery, Three Sisters is resplendent with Chekhov's delicious observations, his playfulness and love of surprise. His characters suffer the decay of love and the ravages of time, but all the time he charges them, and us, to face the future with courage and hope.
"I am attracted to the lightness and fragility of Three Sisters. Time and loss are corrosive forces but the characters also seek escape, joy, laughter, dancing, fantasy...dreaming. They look to the horizon." Benedict Andrews, director
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