"Three Sisters" by Anton Chekhov - For Schools

They dream, chatter on and get bored. They yearn for their childhood years in Moscow. If they were still there, things would be better. That is the three sisters’ fantasy; they see life in the provincial town they live in as a heavy sentence. You, though, may have already realized what Chekhov is trying to tell us; fantasizing about things is never enough. Life needs action.

Now forget Moscow and 1901 Russia; Dimitris Xanthopoulos is putting on the “Three Sisters” in the belief that all places and all times are straddling a fault-line, that they are always in a state of continuous upheaval. This also seems to hold for the different ages during a lifetime; we all experience desires and deadlocks very similar to the ones faced by Chekhov’s characters.

To top it all, the play’s cast includes a person almost your age. The 18-year old amateur actress Kalliope Kanellopoulou-Stamou, who took the stage by storm at the Onassis Youth Festival, plays Irina, the youngest of the three sisters.