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The Three Sisters

By: Anton Chekhov, Julius West - translator
Narrated by: Andy Harrington, Leanne Yau, Elizabeth Chambers, Elizabeth Klett, Amanda Friday, Jeff Moon, Noel Badrian
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The Three Sisters by Anton Chekhov, translated by Julius West, presented by The Online Stage.

The Three Sisters is Anton Chekhov's 1901 play about the Prosorov family, who are stuck in a provincial Russian town. The sisters - Olga, Masha, and Irina - fantasize about one day returning to Moscow. Meanwhile, their brother Andrey courts village girl Natasha, and the family socializes with the soldiers stationed nearby. Dreams, longing, and illicit love drive the action of Chekhov's comic drama.

Cast:

Andrei Sergeyevitch Prosorov: Andy Harrington
Natalia Ivanovna (Natasha), his fiancée, later his wife: Leanne Yau
Olga: Elizabeth Chambers
Masha: Elizabeth Klett
Irina: Amanda Friday
Feodor Ilitch Kuligin, high school teacher, married to Masha: Jeff Moon
Alexander Ignateyevitch Vershinin, lieutenant-colonel: David Prickett
Nicolai Lvovitch Tuzenbach, baron, lieutenant in the army and Tovarisch Vasssili Vassilevitch Soleni, captain: Ron Altman
Ivan Romanovitch Chebutikin, army doctor: Noel Badrian
Alexey Petrovitch Fedotik, sub-lieutenant: Ben Stevens
Vladimir Carlovitch Rode, sub-lieutenant: Ted Wenskus
Ferapont, door-keeper at local council offices: Denis Daly
Anfisa, nurse: Maureen Boutilier
Narrator: Linda Barrans
Audio edited by Elizabeth Klett

Public Domain (P)2017 The Online Stage Classics Drama Education European Russian & Soviet Sociology Solider

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Not a great version

I bought this directly from my Alexa without listening to a preview, my mistake. The play appears to have been completed by editing together parts read by actors in separate rooms - possibly a Covid lockdown recording? They rarely sound as if naturally responding to each other, the volume of speech varies greatly between characters and a couple are so obviously reading from scripts that it makes their delivery stilted and lacking in feeling. The disparate accents - English, American, North European/Russian - of the actors does not work other than to feel that the small provincial town has an international population and even, in one family, the characters cannot be related or have grown up together. As a result, a story displaying the vacuous and unaware turn of the century lives of bourgeoise Russians, and hints of the destruction of their lives to come does not create the tension and foreboding that I would expect,

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