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University Theatre tackles Chekov
By Ming Rodrigues
Emerald Reporter
Anton Chekov's classic dra
ma about the hopes and yearn
ings of a Russian provincial
family at the turn of the century
conies to modern theater as fa
miliar and moving as when it
first opened 00 years ago in
1001
This Friday. University
Theatre presents Three Sisters.
the tragi comedy masterpiece
exploring Uhekov's favorite
subject the universal human
experience of frailties, long
ings thwarted dreams, laugh
ter and tears
"This is a play about the
search for a purpose and direi
(ion in life," said Robert Bar
ton. the play's director and an
assoc iate professor in theater
arts "It examines why living
can be such a torture and why
we suffer so much in life.
(These are) questions mankind
will always be able to relate
with. Anton Chekov is the fa
tber of contemporary realism
His plays are not a social state
ment. instead, they capture real
life ."
Covering a span of three and
<1 half years, the play revolves
around the Prozorosf sisters.
Olga. Marsha and Irina, who
find they -ire lost in life v\ ithout
the influential helping hand of
their father, a general in the
provide ial army w ho died a
year earlier
Raised in the kind of aristo
cratic lifestyle no longer exist
ing in Russia, the sisters and
their friends long tor change
and to make something differ
ent in their lives, but they don't
know how to go about it
In the end. however, the
charm ters emerge from their
compelling and sometimes
painful quest for the meaning
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Three Sisters, a play by the Russian muster. Anton (Iheckov,
will be performed by the University Theatre h'eb. 22. 2.1 and
28. and March t. 2. 8 and 9.
of lift- with tht! resolve to go on
living
“Thrtw Sisturs is at once fun
ny, moving anti sati It's hard
not to gel involved w ith it espe
cially when the charat ters are
so real and lovable," Barton
said.
"It's difficult to summarize
Chekov's works They're just so
full of subtle nuances that at
one level, it seems as if there's
really nothing much going on.
but if you look t loser and deep
t-r. there's the powerful ole
ment of humanity ”
Barton, who often directs
Shakespearean plays, picked
Three Sisters for .i i hange in
dramatic styles and also for (hr
rii ti and varied roles it offers
women
1 wanted to do something
that contrasts with the larger
than life, heroic flavor ol
Shakespeare where the theme
is often what life might he in
stead of what it is whit h is
( hekov s lot us." Barton said
Three Sisters starts Friday
night at H in Robinson Theater
Kxtra performances are st fieti
uled for Feb 2.1 and 2H and
March 1. 2. 8 and 0 Tickets are
S-l 50 for students and $t> 50
general admission and are
available at Robinson Theater
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