three sisters I never had

by Eric Marlin

Irina wants Moscow. Masha wants Vershinin. Olga wants peace. And in a room that is not in Imperial Russia, a man who is not Chekhov frets about his windowsill, his mother, and the longings of three fictional sisters. The sisters, meanwhile, keep slipping out of their theatrical world, in this phantasmagoric collision between Chekhov’s grief-stricken past and our grief-stricken present.

Irina wants Moscow. Masha wants Vershinin. Olga wants peace. And in a room that is not in Imperial Russia, a man who is not Chekhov frets about his windowsill, his mother, and the longings of three fictional sisters. The sisters, meanwhile, keep slipping out of their theatrical world, in this phantasmagoric collision between Chekhov’s grief-stricken past and our grief-stricken present.

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three sisters I never had

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  • Cheryl Bear: three sisters I never had

    A terrific Chekhovian adaptation that vividly brings their story to life in the present. Well done.

    A terrific Chekhovian adaptation that vividly brings their story to life in the present. Well done.

Development History

  • Type Reading, Organization Adverse Abstraction, Year 2024
  • Type Workshop, Organization Healthy Oyster Collective, Year 2021