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Theatre We all have dreams and ambitions in our youth that can be
tempered by the life we end up living. Transplanted from their
Three Sisters beloved metropolitan life to a provincial small town, three sisters
yearn for the city of their childhood where they imagine their
By Anton Chekhov, English version by Sarah Ruhl lives will be transformed and fulfilled. The eldest sister, an “old
maid” school teacher, the middle sister, an unhappily married
November 4, 5, 11 & 12 | 8 pm & November 13, 2016 | 2 pm wife who has wandered outside her marriage, and the youngest
Tickets: $12 • Student $7 sister, an idealist: Three Sisters is the portrait of a family grappling
with the bittersweet distance between reality and dreams.
Discover the humor and heartbreak of one of the world’s greatest plays
revealed through the lyricism of Sarah Ruhl, two-time Pulitzer Prize
nominated playwright of Eurydice and In The Next Room (The Vibrator Play).
