Collegiate Drama Society presents Anton Chekhov’s “Three Sisters” English Play at Russian Centre of Science & Culture (RCSC), 24, Ferozshah Road > 6:30pm on 27th February 2015

Time : 6:30 pm Add to Calendar 27-02-2015 18:30:00 27-02-2015 20:00:00 68 Collegiate Drama Society presents Anton Chekhov’s “Three Sisters” English Play Event Page : http://goo.gl/0pJx7G Russian Centre of Science & Culture (RCSC), 24, Ferozshah Road, New Delhi-110001 DD/MM/YYYY

Entry : Free (Seating on First-Come First-Served basis)

Venue : Russian Centre of Science & Culture (RCSC), 24, Ferozshah Road, New Delhi-110001

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Event Description : To celebrate 155th Birth Anniversary of Anton Chekhov, Collegiate Drama Society (Regd.) in collaboration with the Russian Centre of Science and Culture presents Anton Chekhov’s “Three Sisters” 

About the Play:
Three Sisters is a naturalistic play about the decay of the Russian bourgeoisie and the search for meaning in the modern world. It describes the lives and aspirations of the Prozorov family, the three sisters (Olga, Masha, and Irina) and their brother Andrei. They are a family dissatisfied and frustrated with their present existence. The sisters are refined and cultured young women who grew up in urban Moscow; however for the past eleven years they have been living in a provincial town.
Moscow is a major symbolic element; the sisters are always dreaming of it and constantly express their desire to return. They identify Moscow with their happiness. Thus, to them it represents the perfect life. However as the play develops Moscow never materializes and they all see their dreams recede further and further. Meaning never presents itself and they are forced to seek it out for themselves.

About the Playwright: Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (29 January 1860 – 15 July 1904) was a Russian physician, dramaturge and author who is considered to be among the greatest writers of short stories in history. His career as a dramatist produced four classics and his best short stories are held in high esteem by writers and critics. Chekhov practiced as a medical doctor throughout most of his literary career: "Medicine is my lawful wife", he once said, "and literature is my mistress." Along with Henrik Ibsen and August Strindberg, Chekhov is often referred to as one of the three seminal figures in the birth of early modernism in the theater.
Chekhov renounced the theatre after the disastrous reception of The Seagull in 1896, but the play was revived to acclaim in 1898 by Constantin Stanislavski's Moscow Art Theatre, which subsequently also produced Chekhov's Uncle Vanya and premiered his last two plays, Three Sisters and The Cherry Orchard. These four works present a challenge to the acting ensemble as well as to audiences, because in place of conventional action Chekhov offers a "theatre of mood" and a "submerged life in the text."  
Chekhov had at first written stories only for financial gain, but as his artistic ambition grew, he made formal innovations which have influenced the evolution of the modern short story. His originality consists in an early use of the stream-of-consciousness technique, later adopted by James Joyce and other modernists, combined with a disavowal of the moral finality of traditional story structure. He made no apologies for the difficulties this posed to readers, insisting that the role of an artist was to ask questions, not to answer them.

Direction: Ravi Taneja

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