num_pages: 128
description: The play focuses on the lives of three sisters, Olga, Masha, and Irina, young women of the Russian gentry who try to fill their days in order to construct a life that feels meaningful while surrounded by an array of military men, servants, husbands, suitors, and lovers, all of whom constitute a distractions from the passage of time and from the sisters' desire to return to their beloved Moscow.
language: English
title: Three Sisters: A Comedy in Four Acts
titlecomplete: Three Sisters: A Comedy in Four Acts (Great Translations for Actors Series)
genres: Russian Literature, School, Theatre, Russia, Classics, Drama, Plays, Fiction, Literature, 20th Century
ratings_count: 21385
places: Ukraine
publisher: Smith & Kraus Pub Inc