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Drei Schwestern (russisch Три сестры) ist ein am 31. Januar 1901 in Moskau uraufgeführtes Drama von Anton Tschechow.
Seit elf Jahren leben Irina, Mascha, Olga Prosorow und ihr Bruder Andrej in der Provinzstadt / Gouvernementsstadt fern von Moskau, woher sie stammen und wohin sie wieder zurück möchten. Durch ihren Vater, einen Brigadegeneral, waren sie hierher verschlagen worden. Doch der Vater ist jetzt tot. Der Bruder Andrej
...4) Swan Song
One-act-play with only two characters: Vasili Svietlovidoff, a 68 year old comic actor and Nikita Ivanich, an even older man, the theater's prompter.
5) Uncle Vanya
The play portrays the visit of an elderly professor and his glamorous, much younger second wife, Yelena, to the rural estate that supports their urban lifestyle. Two friends—Vanya, brother of the professor's late first wife, who has long managed the estate, and Astrov, the local doctor—both fall under Yelena's spell, while bemoaning the ennui of their provincial existence. Sonya, the professor's daughter by his first
...6) Ivanoff
The first of Chekhov's full-length dramas, Ivanov treads a fine line between broad comedy and tragic melodrama. Ivanov, a young estate owner, is too intelligent and too bored to endure his provincial life. He is a "superfluous man," attracted to a beautiful young woman who threatens his moral foundations and leads him ultimately to tragedy.
9) My Life
Subtitled "The Story of a Provincial" this tale deals with the life of Misail Poloznev, a young gentleman who renounces the "privilege of capital and education" in favor of earning his living through manual labor. (from Wikipedia)
11) Schlafen!
13) The Schoolmaster
Fydor Lukitch Sysoev is dressing for his fourteenth annual dinner held in honor of the school teachers. Sysoev has long been considered the best teacher of all and is eager to grasp glory once again, though he thinks the examining inspector tried to sabotage him by asking his students unnecessarily difficult questions. He is very old and has to lie down before he can pull on his boots. He is applauded at the banquet, but is cantankerous to everyone.
In
...In Chekhov's tragi-comedy - perhaps his most popular play - the Gayev family is torn by powerful forces, forces rooted deep in history, and in the society around them. Their estate is hopelessly in debt: urged to cut down their beautiful cherry orchard and sell the land for holiday cottages, they struggle to act decisively.
Published in 1918, it includes the following stories:
The Schoolmistress
A Nervous Breakdown
Misery
Champagne
After the Theatre
A Lady's Story
In Exile
The Cattle-Dealers
Sorrow (Chekhov)
On Official Duty
The First-Class Passenger
A Tragic Actor
A Transgression
Small Fry
The Requiem
In the Coach-House
Panic Fears
The Bet
The
...First performed at the Moscow Art Theatre in 1901, The Three Sisters probes the lives and dreams of Olga, Masha, and Irina, former Muscovites now living in a provincial town from which they long to escape. Their hopes for a life more suited to their cultivated tastes and sensibilities provide a touching counterpoint to the relentless flow of compromising events in the real world.
In this powerful play, a landmark of modern drama,
19) The Kiss
An awkward young soldier is kissed in error by a young woman at a house party, and his whole outlook on life changes.