Three Sisters
Three sisters, Olga, Irina and Masha, gather in a downtown Manhattan restaurant to celebrate Irina’s birthday. Along the way they drink too much wine, share vicodin, commiserate about unhappy love lives and exile to the outer boroughs, and wonder whether they will ever be able to afford their beloved Upper West Side again.
Cast Requirements
1 man
3 women
Fixed Set
Press
"Reitz has a great ear for dialogue, supplying a 21st century American idiom to match Chekhov's own rambling dialogue; it's a gift, making perfectly ordinary conversation soar with the emotional heft of stage poetry. If he doesn't plumb as deeply into the hearts and souls of his sisters as Chekhov did (his play is about a quarter of the length of the original, after all), he nonetheless gives us a neat mix of gossip and substance to carry with us after we've left the company of these singular ladies."
--nytheatre.com
Production and Development History
Produced: Seventh Street Small Stage, NYC.