Three Sisters (Tcg Edition) -- Anton Chekhov

"Wonderfully fresh and affecting." - Ben Brantley, <i>New York Times</i> <p/>"This lucid interpretation rewards with its deep understanding of a complex play." -David Rooney, <i>Hollywood Reporter</i> <p/>The works of Russia's greatest playwright, Anton Chekhov, masterfully blend comedy and pathos, creating a richness of texture and characterization rarely seen since Shakespeare. With <i>Three Sisters</i> (1901), his portrait of the Prozorov family's elusive dream of returning from the provinces to an idealized Moscow, he captured a restlessness and yearning which remain enduringly modern. In Paul Schmidt's version - the basis for the Wooster Group's acclaimed adaptation <i>Brace Up </i> - we can perceive, for the first time in English, a refreshingly clear and colloquial style we instinctively know as Chekhov's own. <p/><b>ANTON CHEKHOV</b> (1860-1904) led a double life as a practicing physician and a celebrated author of short stories and plays. The Moscow Art Theater's stagings of <i>The Seagull</i>, <i>Uncle Vanya</i>, <i>The Cherry Orchard</i> and <i>Three Sisters</i> - under the direction of Konstantin Stanislavsky - secured Chekhov's reputation as a world-class dramatist. <p/><b>PAUL SCHMIDT</b> edited <i>Meyerhold at Work</i> and has translated writings by Rimbaud, Khlebnikov, Gogol, Kaiser, Mayakovsky and Genet. Recipient of an NEA fellowship and of a doctorate in Russian from Harvard University, his translations, adaptations and original plays have been performed a