"I was not prepared for how much richness remained to be unearthed in this story…As we wander together through this production, we’re reminded that no matter where we go, we take ourselves with us. That is the tragedy and glory of being alive." —Kerry Reid, Chicago Reader
"Chekhov manages to make us recognize and laugh in self-recognition at the varieties of disappointment and desperation he finds in personal and public life in pre-Revolutionary Russia."—Helen Epstein, The Arts Fue
After their father’s death, Olga, Masha, and Irina find life in their small Russian town stifling and hopeless. They long to return to Moscow, the bustling metropolis they left eleven years ago, but their brother Andrei’s gambling habits have trapped them in their small provincial lives. As the seventh play in the TCG Classic Russian Drama Series, playwright Richard Nelson and translators of Russian literature Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky continue their collaboration with a masterful new translation of Chekhov’s exploration of yearning and disillusionment.