THE THREE SISTERS RESEARCH

The Three Sisters is a Russian play written by Anton Chekhov.

Anton Pavlovich Chekhov was a Russian playwright and short-story writer, who is considered to be among the greatest writers of short fiction in history. His career as a playwright produced four classics, and his best short stories are held in high esteem by writers and critics.

He wrote a lot of plays, 16 in total including The Seagull, The Cherry Orchard, The Three Sisters and Uncle Vanya. He was also wrote books and did more, These four plays present a challenge to the acting ensemble as well as to audiences, because in place of conventional action Chekhov offers a “theatre of mood” and a “submerged life in the text.” Chekhov had at first written stories only for financial gain, but as his artistic ambition grew, he made formal innovations which have influenced the evolution of the modern short story. He made no apologies for the difficulties this posed to readers, insisting that the role of an artist was to ask questions, not to answer them.  Anton Chekhov was the author of hundreds of short stories and several plays and is regarded by many as both the greatest Russian storyteller and the father of modern drama.

The Three Sisters present the lives and aspirations of an aristocratic Russian family as they struggle with the decline of their class and the responsibilities of their inherited estate at the dawn of the twentieth-century. Originally inspired by the Bronte sisters the play concerns the lives of the Prozorov family as they search for meaning in the modern world. First performed in 1901, the three sisters, Olga, Masha, and Irina along with their brother Andrei are living in a small provincial town but long to return to the urban sophistication of Moscow where they grew up. It follows three sisters who are in search for a meaning in their lives despite being stuck in a rural setting. Like 'The Seagull,' this play deals with themes of disappointment and frustration.

The play is consisted of 4 acts however they feature different turns of events throughout each of them and they don't follow the story originally, instead the story jumps time an example is Act 1-2 in Act 1 the play begins by introducing the different characters and gives the audience some points and events that have already happened such as the death of the three sisters' father which help the audience understand the plot. However in transition to act 2 a lot of things have happened as it's set around 1 year after which does confuse the audience quite a bit.

[Act one begins with Olga (the eldest sister) working as a teacher in a school, but at the end of the play she is made headmistress, a promotion in which she had little interest. Masha, the middle sister and the artist of the family (she was trained as a concert pianist), is married to Feodor Ilyich Kulygin, a schoolteacher. At the time of their marriage, Masha, younger than he, was enchanted by what she took to be wisdom, but seven years later, she sees through his pedantry and his clownish attempts to compensate for the emptiness between them. Irina, the youngest sister, is still full of expectation. She speaks of her dream of going to Moscow and meeting her true love. It was in Moscow that the sisters grew up, and they all long to return to the sophistication and happiness of that time. Andrei is the only boy in the family and the sisters idolise him. He is in love with Natalia Ivanovna (Natasha), who is somewhat common in relation to the sisters and suffers under their glance. The play begins on the first anniversary of their father's death, but it is also Irina's name-day, and everyone, including the soldiers (led by the gallant Vershinin) bringing with them a sense of noble idealism, comes together to celebrate it.]

[Act two begins almost a year later with Andrei and Natasha married with their first child (offstage), a baby boy named Bobik. Natasha is having an affair with Protopopov, Andrei's superior, a character who is mentioned but never seen onstage. Masha comes home flushed from a night out, and it is clear that she and her companion, Lieutenant-Colonel Vershinin, are giddy with the secret of their mutual love for one another.]

Andrei character profile: The brother of the three sisters. In Act I, he is a young man on the fast track to being a Professor in Moscow. In Act 2, Andrei still longs for his old days as a bachelor dreaming of life in Moscow, but is now, due to his ill-conceived wedding to Natasha, stuck in a provincial town with a baby and a job as secretary to the County Council.
The play is set in the early 1900s which means that the language used is going to be different to what I'm used to, the style is different.
 As Andrei, I tend to find myself in Russia, in a small town, in the house that me and my 3 sisters inherited from my father who has passed away around 2 years ago (as it's Act 2), I'm always in my room because I try to keep my self busy by reading or playing violin or just simply doing something productive. I do this because I like to distance myself. I want to talk to propel but I'm afraid of what they'll think of me.
I tend to behave in a rather peculiar way, I have to listen to my wife, as it's a new marriage I have to always take in to account what ever she wants, as I'm always following on to her every need.
At this point in the play, I'm trying to read and I'm interrupted by Natasha my wife as she wants something and I have to just listen and agree with what ever she wants me to do for her.