Three Sisters (TCG Edition)

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"Wonderfully fresh and affecting." - Ben Brantley, New York Times "This lucid interpretation rewards with its deep understanding of a complex play." -David Rooney, Hollywood Reporter The works of Russia's greatest playwright, Anton Chekhov, masterfully blend comedy and pathos, creating a richness of texture and characterization rarely seen since Shakespeare. With Three Sisters (1901), his portrait of the Prozorov family's elusive dream of returning from the provinces to an idealized Moscow, he captured a restlessness and yearning which remain enduringly modern. In Paul Schmidt's version - the basis for the Wooster Group's acclaimed adaptation Brace Up! - we can perceive, for the first time in English, a refreshingly clear and colloquial style we instinctively know as Chekhov's own. ANTON CHEKHOV (1860-1904) led a double life as a practicing physician and a celebrated author of short stories and plays. The Moscow Art Theater's stagings of The Seagull, Uncle Vanya, The Cherry Orchard and Three Sisters - under the direction of Konstantin Stanislavsky - secured Chekhov's reputation as a world-class dramatist. PAUL SCHMIDT edited Meyerhold at Work and has translated writings by Rimbaud, Khlebnikov, Gogol, Kaiser, Mayakovsky and Genet. Recipient of an NEA fellowship and of a doctorate in Russian from Harvard University, his translations, adaptations and original plays have been performed across the country.

Tracy Letts was awarded the 2008 Pulitzer Prize for Drama and Tony Award for Best Play for August: Osage County which premiered at Steppenwolf Theatre in 2007 and later played on Broadway, at London's National Theatre, and at theatres around the United States and internationally. In 2013, August: Osage County became a feature film starring Meryl Streep and Julia Roberts. Other writing credits include Man from Nebraska, Killer Joe, Bug and Superior Donuts. He has been an ensemble member at Steppenwolf Theatre Company since 2002. As an actor, he was awarded a 2013 Tony Award for Best Actor in a Play for his performance in Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?. His screen acting credits include a starring role on Homeland/

"Zestier and more colloquial than most translations Letts' main achievement here is to make Chekhov more emotional, accessible and active." Chris Jones, Chicago Tribune "A no-nonsense script by Pulitzer and Tony Award-winning Tracy Letts that blends compassion with tough love. Repeatedly, Letts delivers heartbreak on cue I've seen over a dozen Three Sisters, but never has the final scene of the sisters' solidarity after all the blows we see them suffer registered so hard." Lawrence Bommer, Chicago Theater Beat "Highly recommended... Fascinating revival... has a speed and light, a sharpness and edgy heart that make it newly compelling." Chicago Sun-Times "Refreshingly blunt, provocative." Sam Hurwitt, The Reporter "Zestier and more colloquial than most translations... Letts' main achievement here is to make Chekhov more emotional, accessible and active." - Chris Jones, Chicago Tribune "A no-nonsense script by Pulitzer and Tony Award-winning Tracy Letts that blends compassion with tough love. Repeatedly, Letts delivers heartbreak on cue... I've seen over a dozen Three Sisters, but never has the final scene of the sisters' solidarity after all the blows we see them suffer registered so hard." - Lawrence Bommer, Chicago Theater Beat "Highly recommended... Fascinating revival... has a speed and light, a sharpness and edgy heart that make it newly compelling." - Chicago Sun-Times "Refreshingly blunt, provocative." - Sam Hurwitt, The Reporter