Three Sisters

Preserving the text of the play the amazing dialogues the brilliant characters we have transposed the action into todays Russian provinces and changed only one thing the age of the heroes In Anton Chekhovs play the heroines are aged around 25 now they are 55 What does that do The heroes retorts stylistically inappropriate from todays twentyyearolds are absolutely organic for the older generation the Soviet intelligentsia The problems of Chekhovs classical work concerning the search for a meaning in life the loss of ideals the fear before death without having achieved anything in the world the desire to be useful to others all these things are also a typical attribute of the Soviet intelligentsia