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Three Sisters
From: Pittsburgh City Paper
Date: 20071010
Author:Isenberg, Robert
Three Sisters
THREE SISTERS, by Anton Chekhov, is about more than three sisters. There are also two lieutenants, a bunch of maids, a new mother, a teacher, a doctor, a compulsive gambler, a troupe of mummers and a lovesick baron. Over the course of three breakneck hours, we watch the nonstop intrigues of their lives: an engagement, several births, a love affair, an attempted rape, two massive parties, possible arson and (why not?) a duel. Of the 14 principal characters, a dozen get to monologue about their most heartfelt disappointments and desires. T7iree Sisters is an overlong Czarist soap ...
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