Three Sisters (TCG Edition) (TCG Translations)

Wonderfully fresh and affecting. Ben Brantley, New York Times

This lucid interpretation rewards with its deep understanding of a complex play. David Rooney, Hollywood Reporter

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 Three Sisters (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 Brace Up! we can perceive, for the first time in English, a refreshingly clear and colloquial style we instinctively know as Chekhov s own.

ANTON CHEKHOV (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 The Seagull, Uncle Vanya, The Cherry Orchard and Three Sisters under the direction of Konstantin Stanislavsky secured Chekhov s reputation as a world-class dramatist.

PAUL SCHMIDT edited Meyerhold at Work 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 across the country.