Three Sisters

"Let's pack our bags and go to Moscow; there's no place like Moscow" pleads Irina, the youngest sister. Her cry echoes throughout Anton Chekhov's play, a mantra for the entire Prozorov family.

Stuck in a small town in provincial Russia, spinster schoolmistress Olga, unhappily married Masha, idealistic Irina, and Andrei, the failed scientist, yearn for better days. The Prozorovs long for love and happiness, their only companions the soldiers stationed in the local garrison, a group of would-be poets and philosophers. The family, forever aware of a better future just beyond reach, faces marriage, birth, and death alike, constantly searching for answers to why we keep on living.