![]() ![]() ![]() And happiness is for those who come after us." He is a philosopher as he contemplates the future: "I think I figured out one thing, the most important thing. The men in their own home-a schoolteacher an aging doctor a cherished brother who, once a prodigy, seems to have failed on that promise-pale in comparison to the excitements of Lieutenant Colonel Vershinin, commander of the artillery battery, whom they remember as their father's friend in Moscow. They are surrounded by military men who bring to their lives a sense of a bigger world, a sphere of activity and movement that contrasts their own feelings of stasis. The situation of the play: three sisters, living in the provinces for eleven years, longing for a life that they once felt was theirs, the great emblem of which is Moscow. ![]() What is it, exactly, that happens in Three Sisters? How does it work? What is it, in the alchemy of the play, that is so deeply affecting but is so elusive in its method? As I puzzled over the play, I began to feel that this sense of the slippery, elusive pursuit of meaning is the struggle of the characters themselves: meaning is just beyond the reach of each of them and produces the longing that is the heartbeat of the play. I have found it very difficult to write about this play. ![]()
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