Three Sisters (play)

Three Sisters (Russian: Три сeстры, translit. Tri sestry) is a play by the Russian author and playwright Anton Chekhov. It was written in 1900 and first performed in 1901 at the Moscow Art Theatre. The play is sometimes included on the short list of Chekhov's outstanding plays, along with The Cherry Orchard, The Seagull and Uncle Vanya.

Characters

The Prozorovs

Three Sisters (tomato)

The Three Sisters is a variety of tomato, so named because the plant grows vegetables in three different shapes, each given plant producing only one of the three:

See also

Three Sisters (TV series)

Three Sisters is an American television sitcom that aired on NBC for two seasons from January 9, 2001, to February 5, 2002.

Cast

Brief summary of the show

Steven Keats narrates the story of his life with his wife, Bess, their new baby...and her two omnipresent neurotic sisters and interfering parents. Plots revolved around the young couple's efforts to lead a normal life through Bess's family's craziness and her people-pleasing personality. Guest stars included Valerie Harper and Howard Hesseman as Steven's divorced parents, Merle and Jerry Keats.

References

Three Sisters (musical)

Three Sisters is a musical written by Oscar Hammerstein II (lyrics and book) and Jerome Kern (music).

The musical introduced the song "I Won't Dance", and also includes "Lonely Feet", "Hand in Hand", "Now I Have Springtime", and "My Beautiful Circus Girl".

Plot

The show, set at the beginning of World War I in 1914, concerns the romantic lives of three sisters. The sisters travel the English countryside with their widowed father Will Barbour, a traveling photographer who works at local fairs. The eldest daughter, Tiny, is engaged to Eustace, an earnest if slightly dull constable, although she is attracted to George, an adventurous carnival performer. Dorrie, the middle daughter, is ashamed of her itinerant upbringing and seeks to marry into the aristocracy and enter high society. The youngest daughter, Mary, falls for a gypsy performer. The men are sent to the Western Front in France to fight, while the women remain home.

Productions

The original production opened in London at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane on April 19, 1934. The production featured Victoria Hopper, Stanley Holloway, Adele Dixon, Esmond Knight, and Charlotte Greenwood. Reception was mixed, and the play closed after two months, the shortest run in the history of the Drury Lane Theatre to that point. The show, which was not produced in the U.S., was the last collaboration between Kern and Hammerstein.Three Sisters was Kern's last show to appear in the West End.