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    The Three Sisters
    The Three Sisters
    The Three Sisters
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    The Three Sisters

    Written by Anton Chekhov

    Narrated by LibriVox Community

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    Three Sisters is a naturalistic play about the decay of the privileged class in Russia and the search for meaning in the modern world. It describes the lives and aspirations of the Prozorov family, the three sisters (Olga, Masha, and Irina) and their brother Andrei. They are a family dissatisfied and frustrated with their present existence. The sisters are refined and cultured young women who grew up in urban Moscow; however for the past eleven years they have been living in a small provincial town. Moscow is a major symbolic element: the sisters are always dreaming of it and constantly express their desire to return. They identify Moscow with their happiness, and thus to them it represents the perfect life. However as the play develops Moscow never materializes and they all see their dreams recede further and further. Meaning never presents itself and they are forced to seek it out for themselves. (Summary by wikipedia)



    The Three Sisters Cast:
    ANDREY SERGEYEVITCH PROSOROV - Joe Spy
    NATALIA IVANOVA (NATASHA), his fiancée, later his wife - Availle
    OLGA - Elizabeth Klett
    MASHA - Arielle Lipshaw
    IRINA - Elizabeth Barr
    FEODOR ILITCH KULIGIN, high school teacher, married to MASHA - mb
    ALEXANDER IGNATEYEVITCH VERSHININ, lieutenant-colonel in charge of a battery - Bruce Pirie
    NICOLAI LVOVITCH TUZENBACH, baron, lieutenant in the army - John Fricker
    VASSILI VASSILEVITCH SOLENI, captain - Denny Sayers
    IVAN ROMANOVITCH CHEBUTIKIN, army doctor - Algy Pug
    ALEXEY PETROVITCH FEDOTIK, sub-lieutenant - Raken
    VLADIMIR CARLOVITCH RODE, sub-lieutenant - Elizabeth Klett
    FERAPONT, door-keeper at local council offices, an old man - David Lawrence
    ANFISA, nurse - Ana
    Narrator/Stage Directions - Mary Herndon Bell

    Audio edited by Arielle Lipshaw
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherLibriVox
    Release dateAug 25, 2014
    Author

    Anton Chekhov

    Anton Chekhov was born in 1860 in Southern Russia and moved to Moscow to study medicine. Whilst at university he sold short stories and sketches to magazines to raise money to support his family. His success and acclaim grew as both a writer of fiction and of plays whilst he continued to practice medicine. Ill health forced him to move from his country estate near Moscow to Yalta where he wrote some of his most famous work, and it was there that he married actress Olga Knipper. He died from tuberculosis in 1904.

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