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The
Three Sisters
(Chicago Premiere)
By Anton Chekhov
A new version by Sarah Ruhl
Directed by Joyce Piven
October 18 - November 21, 2010
The
Three Sisters, by Anton Chekhov, depicts an entire village
of unlucky lovers struggling with the bittersweet distance between
reality and dreams. The three sisters: schoolmistress Olga, married
Masha and idealistic Irina, are stuck in a backwater town, and
long to get to Moscow where they imagine their lives will be transformed.
This classic tale, seeped in longing, is given another look in
a new version adapted by Sarah Ruhl, one of America’s most
acclaimed young playwrights, and author of In the Next Room
(Or the Vibrator Play), Late: A Cowboy Song and
The Clean House. The Chicago Premiere is directed by
Chicago theatre veteran Joyce Piven, the co-founder and Artistic
Director Emeritus of Piven Theatre Workshop. Discover the humor
and heartbreak of one of the world’s great plays, retold
by one of the most original voices in contemporary theatre.
“She’s
one of the hottest playwrights around, a Pulitzer nominee and
MacArthur ‘genius’ letting her imagination run wild.”
- San Jose Mercury News
“In Les Waters, who directed her exciting Eurydice a few
seasons back, she has found an expert collaborator.” - The
New Yorker
“Three Sisters is the kind of theater I love…Sarah
Ruhl’s smart new translation feels just right to contemporary
American ears—lean, colloquial and conversational for us
and true to Chekhov’s original work.” - Cincinnati
Enquirer
“Ruhl’s a great intellect, a true entertainer, an
authoritative American voice.” - New York Magazine |
