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The Play Podcast - 093 - Three Sisters, by Anton Chekhov


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Episode 093: Three Sisters by Anton Chekhov

Host: Douglas Schatz Guest: Rory Mullarkey

Welcome to The Play Podcast where we explore the greatest new and classic plays. Each episode we choose a single play to talk about in depth with our expert guest. We'll discuss the play's origins, its themes, characters, structure and impact. For us the play is the thing.

Anton Chekhov's Three Sisters, the third of the quartet of great plays that he wrote in the last years of his short life, is a symphonic study of the search for purpose and love.

Three Sisters premiered in January 1901 at the Moscow Arts Theatre, where his previous two major plays, Uncle Vanya and The Seagull had debuted.

As we record this episode a spellbinding new production is on stage at Shakespeare's Globe theatre in London. The text for that production is translated by playwright Rory Mullarkey, who joins us to explore Chekhov's masterpiece.

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