Drei Schwestern

In the organizer's words:

Translated from the Russian by Elina Finkel

14+

Duration: approx. 2 hours 45 minutes | one intermission

For all performances (except the premiere) there will be an introduction 30 minutes before the start and a discussion afterwards.

The three sisters Olga, Mascha and Irina live with their brother Andrej in a desolate provincial town after their father is transferred. It is the first anniversary of the death of the beloved head of the family and they all think back wistfully to the happy times in the big city where they had previously lived. At the moment, each of the sisters is dissatisfied with her own life situation in her own way: Olga is stressed by her work as a teacher and would rather stay at home as a wife. Masha is unhappily married. Little Irina is bored and would like to give her life meaning through work. While the three of them are immersed in nostalgic memories and officers come and go in their house, brother Andrei marries a girl from the city, Natasha. Unlike the sisters, the new sister-in-law has no problem arranging life according to her own ideas. Bit by bit, she drives the three sisters out of their refuge.
In his social drama, which premiered in 1901, Chekhov shows different life plans between melancholy and joie de vivre, which are in competition with each other. What they all have in common is the search for a better life filled with meaning and the inability to act.