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You'd be hard put to find a better script to work with than this translation by Michael Frayn . . . It sticks rigorously to the inner thrust of the play while giving it a fresh crisp clarity that makes it not just accessible but compelling to watch. The underlying tragedy . . . is intact. It is made more moving not less by the way Frayn's ineffably light touch has caught too the comedy of Andrey and his three sisters.' GUARDIAN 'Frayn puts well the central statement of this most moving of dramas: it is about the irony of the hopes by which people live and the way their destiny mocks them. Chekhov shows how life is both nourished and poisoned by the act of hope itself' DAILY TELEGRAPH Following their father's death life for sisters Olga Masha and Irina in a Russian provincial garrison town has become unbearably dull. They feel they have become culturally romantically and intellectually starved. To these sisters Moscow where they once lived and in spite of its sad memories has become a symbol of unfulfilled hope promises and opportunity and one which contrasts with the tedium of their own lives and circumstances. The sisters' main hope of moving to Moscow depends on their brother Andrey with his ambitions to work in academia in Moscow. Set over three and a half years at the turn of the twentieth century and premiered at the Moscow Art Theatre in 1901 Chekhov's play has become among the most iconic in modern theatre. This translation is by Michael Frayn one of today's most eminent British playwrights and translators of Russian drama. Commentary and notes by Nick Worrall.

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