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AN EXISTENTIAL `SISTERS' ACT CHEKHOV CLASSIC TAKES A PAGE FROM BECKETT AT THE ART

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From: The Boston Globe
Date: 20051202
Author:Ed Siegel, Globe Staff

CAMBRIDGE Anton Chekhov and Samuel Beckett, together again at the American Repertory Theatre.

Picking up where "Uncle Vanya" left off two seasons ago, the ART's production of "Three Sisters" takes the characters out of their roots in realism and moves them into a bleak house where there is little to do but confront the void.

The simple plot certainly allows for such an intriguing staging: Three sisters live out their dreary lives in a provincial Russian town, longing to get to Moscow, where they're certain they can find meaning and joy. As they are obviously never going to get there, the ...

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