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

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

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Also by Nicholas Wright:

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

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