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Anton Chekhov

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William Thomas

Gareth Pierce

Aled Bidder

Roger Goula

Natalie Holt

Sam Thompson

Peter Gregson

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Alison Hindell

Drama on 3: Three Sisters

Three Sisters

13/03/2016

BBC Radio 3 - Drama on 3, Three Sisters

Anton Chekhov's Russian classic. Three sisters long to go to Moscow, but can that ever be?

By Anton Chekhov. Drama about three sisters living in provincial Russia. While they dream of returning to their home city of Moscow, real life keeps getting in the way.

Three sisters living in a garrison town in provincial Russia dream of the day that they will return to their home city of Moscow. Maybe then their lives will really start. But in Anton Chekhov's poignant classic somehow real life keeps getting in the way.

Three Sisters was written in 1900 and is a meticulously observed play for an ensemble cast. In its wry portrayal of dreams and self-delusion, and of the folly of believing that life is always better elsewhere, Chekhov's drama captures universal truths, joys and sorrows but his greatness as a writer of the human condition lies in his avoidance of either sentimentality or judgement.

With Peter Ringrose on additional piano

Sound: Nigel Lewis

Adapted for radio by D.J.Britton
Directed by Alison Hindell
BBC Cymru Wales production.

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