Three Sisters (play)

For the musical by Oscar Hammerstein II and Jerome Kern, see Three Sisters (musical).
"Tri sestry" redirects here. For Czech punk rock band, see Tři sestry. For the opera by Péter Eötvös, see Tri sestry (opera).
Three Sisters
Cover of first edition, published 1901 by Adolf Marks
Written byAnton Chekhov
CharactersProzorov family:
  • Olga Sergeyevna Prozorova
  • Maria Sergeyevna Kulygina
  • Irina Sergeyevna Prozorova
  • Andrei Sergeyevich Prozorov
Date premiered1901 (1901), Moscow
Original languageRussian
GenreDrama
SettingA provincial Russian garrison town
Chekhov in a 1905 illustration.

Three Sisters (Russian: Три сeстры́, romanized: 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 often included on the shortlist of Chekhov's outstanding plays, along with The Cherry Orchard, The Seagull and Uncle Vanya.[1]

  1. ^ Harold Bloom (31 October 2003). Genius (Reprint ed.). Grand Central Publishing. ISBN 978-0446691291.