One thing I adore about the play is that the Prozorovs’ world is as real and full as the one we know in our daily lives, and that is the lasting beauty, and heartache, of this show. Though set in a traditional 1900s provincial Russian town, this production is reimagined into a modern, less classically Russian setting to make it relevant for South Asian audiences. Unfulfilled in work and in love, they face despair as Moscow becomes a continually more distant dream. As the years pass, the sisters fall in and out of love, attempting and failing to create the beautiful life they dream of.
The sisters spend their days longing for their youth in Moscow and staving off malaise with the officers from the nearby artillery post. The play is a window opening into four moments across four years of their lives, showing the emotions that humans experience in a lifetime. Moods are light and festive, despite this also being the first death anniversary of their father. The three Prozorov sisters, Olga, Masha, and Irina, are celebrating the 20th birthday of Irina, the youngest. The story takes place in a modern, provincial town that is in the Russian countryside and simultaneously far away from it.
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