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Usually directors perceive the play as a tale of claustropohobia, of slow stifling, of atrophy. The three sisters, Masha, Olga, and Irina want to join the whirl and bustle of life in Moscow, but instead they remain in their small town, their hopes and expectations gradually shrinking to fit the confines of their humdrum existence. Directors typically use elaborate, crowded Victorian set designs to suggest the cramped nature of life in the Prozorov household...
...warm and comfortable room, and slowly settles onto a couch, elevating his legs to minimize the effects of phlebitis. A portrait of a pretty dark-haired woman hangs on one wall; that is Joan Plowright, his third wife and companion of 21 years, painted when she was playing Masha in Chekhov's The Three Sisters, which Olivier directed. Next to one of the windows is a huge picture of a young man dressed in Romeo's tights. He is impossibly handsome, with a long-lashed, almost feminine beauty. More striking still is the look in his eye: assured...
...last lover, and is so hermetically narcissistic that she contributes to the destruction of her son, the avant-garde writer Konstantin (Brent Spiner)? Is it funny that Konstantin loves Nina, who regards him as a nuisance? Or that he, in turn, is loved by the vodka-swigging Masha (Pamela Payton-Wright), whom he detests...
They have come to watch a duel. The participants: challenger Maria ("Masha") Magdalena Markof-Belaeff [origine russe], who undoes her red cravate before the action commences; and instigator Mark Van Dyke Holmes, sporting sneakers, vest, and blazer in Eleanor (Roosevelt) blue...
...gonna be a Masha masher!" tootles Holmes...