Three Sisters

Olga. Masha. Irina. Reality vs Dreams.

In the past, these titular sisters have grated – seemingly spoiled, petulant rich women, languishing in their own despair, reluctant to actually, you know, do anything. The plot may be simple – three sisters pine to return to Moscow, but they don’t. Instead, they journey to nowhere.

Tempest Theatre’s feminist adaptation of Three Sisters strips the original to its essence. Longing. Despair. Isolation.

The existential angst in Chekhov’s Three Sisters is timeless; the need to understand what we are here for, and how we can find happiness, are fundamentally human and eternal.