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Three Sisters
Paperback, 96 pages ISBN: 9781854597557Publication Date:
6 Aug 2003
Size: 200mm x 130mm£10.99 £8.79You save £2.20 (20%)
First Staged:
National Theatre, London, 2003

Three Sisters

By Anton Chekhov Translated by Nicholas Wright

Paperback £10.99£8.79

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Nicholas Wright's version of Chekhov's masterpiece, in which four young people are left stranded in a provincial backwater following the death of their father. They focus their dreams on returning to Moscow, a city remembered through the eyes of childhood as a place where happiness may just be possible.

This version of Three Sisters was first staged at the National Theatre, London, in 2003.

Press Quotes

'More than any Three Sisters I recall, it contrasts laughter with what comes after: hope and delight with frustration and disillusion... Extremely moving - and wholly Chekhovian'

The Times

'Beautifully poetic... A Chekhov to cherish'

Telegraph
Paperback,96 pages ISBN: 9781854597557Publication Date:
6 Aug 2003
Size: 200mm x 130mm£10.99 £8.79You save £2.20 (20%)

Also by Anton Chekhov:

The Cherry Orchard
Ivanov
Three Sisters
Chekhov's Three Sisters and Woolf's Orlando
Chekhov: Shorts
Swansong
The Seagull
The Proposal
Uncle Vanya
The Wedding
Three Sisters
The Seagull
The Cherry Orchard
A Tragic Figure
Three Sisters
Chekhov: Four Plays
The Cherry Orchard
Three Sisters
On the Evils of Tobacco
Ivanov
Chekhov on Theatre
Seagull
Uncle Vanya
The Bear
Three Sisters
Uncle Vanya

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Also by Nicholas Wright:

Cressida
Lulu
Regeneration
His Dark Materials
John Gabriel Borkman
The Slaves of Solitude
Mrs Klein
Rattigan's Nijinsky
Vincent in Brixton
One Fine Day
Naked
The Reporter
The Custom of the Country
The Last of the Duchess
Travelling Light
8 Hotels
Thérèse Raquin
Treetops
Nicholas Wright: Five Plays
The Desert Air

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