Premiere: 01/16/2004
Director: Yuri Solomin, artist: Alexander Glazunov,musical arrangement: Grigory Gobernik
Actors: A. Klyukvin, I. Ivanova, I. Zheryakova, A. Okhlupina, O. Pashkova, V. Andreeva, V. Babyatinsky, A. Ermakov, G. Podgorodinsky, V. Nizovoy, A. Faddeev, E. Martsevich, V. Nosik, S. Korshunov, A. Faddeev, D. Marin, A. Kudinovich, L. Anikeeva, D. Podgornaya, A. Manke
Photos and information about the performance
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"Those who would like to find Mkhatovsky's Chekhov in the new performance of the Maly Theater "Three Sisters" will be disappointed. The Maly has its own Chekhov. Brighter, more simple-minded, more diverse. Without special care about maintaining Chekhov's tone (muted), style (noble and refined ), rhythm (slow). Without that integrity that was a miracle and mystery in the old Moscow Art Theater." Vera Maksimova, Rodnaya Gazeta, 02/27/2004
"Yuri Solomin finds very precise, dotted marks that are deciphered in a multi-valued and interesting way. So the festive feast began: Masha (O. Pashkova) stood up with a glass and silently called on everyone to follow her - the first toast in memory of her father. Everyone understood, except Natasha (I . Ivanova), and Chebutykin (E. Martsevich) quietly whispered something in her ear. This scene lasts for a few seconds, but how important, how symbolic it is! The year of mourning has ended, hopes and dreams of happiness have come to life, but here it is, this. beginning, - the memory of death will never leave the sisters, no matter where they are. And Masha, perhaps the only one, understands this soberly and cruelly.” Natalya Kazmina, Theater life, 06/28/2004
“Sometimes you marvel at how long-familiar meanings are revealed anew, how you suddenly hear something you missed, something you never paid attention to before... “Three Sisters.” Irina in a white dress, Olga in a gray one, similar to her teacher’s uniform, Masha in black. We have been accustomed to this combination for so long, as if we ourselves dressed the Prozorov sisters in these clothes, without thinking about why they were dressed that way.” Natalya Staroselskaya, Theater life, No. 3 2004
“The director of the play, Yuri Solomin, does not express himself through the play, does not impose his own concepts on it, but stages it as Doctor Chekhov prescribed - simply and clearly. And from such a naive, at first glance, approach, the tired, overplayed and overplayed play seems to be freed from burden of interpretations layered over a century and looks fresh and washed, as on a first date, and Chekhov’s words “it’s good where we are not,” sounding in the theater located in the very center of Moscow, where the unfortunate sisters were so eager, give the production a note of sad sincerity.” . Marina Shimadina,Personal time, 08/26/2004
“Chekhov’s intellectuals look like pure aliens today. No efforts at transformation allow the actors to identify with these lazy, hysterical, irrational creatures. And when Chebutykin (Eduard Martsevich) slurred his tongue and tells the parterre: “Maybe I’m not a person, but I’m just pretending “that I have arms and legs,” the stallholder is inclined to believe him. And only the clever, kind, law-abiding, vain, gymnasium teacher Kulygin, dressed in a sparkling uniform, seems to be the only living person among these strange creatures called “intelligentsia.” Victoria Nikiforova, Vedomosti, 02/18/2004
“At the Maly Theater, its artistic director Yuri Solomin presented to the public his version of the production of the famous “Three Sisters”, which to this day have never been staged on the oldest Moscow stage. And here let me fall into banality for a moment. Still, the most textbook classic work is now being staged not for its own sake (if the play has crossed the century mark, it has automatically proven its genius), but for the sake of its connection with the painful points of today's reality, Yuri Solomin emphasized the distance from our time as the eternal from the vain, the present from surrogates. Irina Alpatova,Culture, 12-18.02.2004
“You leave Maly’s performance in a good mood and with joy in your heart. It turns out that you can do it like this - without discoveries and breakthroughs, but also without hitting the wrong notes. Without vulgarity and crap. These “Three Sisters” don’t look like an anachronism for a single minute, although the whole gentlemanly set of the Chekhov production seems to be in place - detailed interiors, a backdrop with a birch grove, period-appropriate costumes. Here the sisters (Alena Okhlupina, Olga Pashkova, Varvara Andreeva) will suffer, Natasha (Inna Ivanova) will turn from a timid bourgeois into a hysterical housekeeper. , Kulygin (Valery Babyatinsky) will be sublimely defenseless in his love for Masha, Solyony (Viktor Nizovoy) will be ridiculous in his romantic claims. But I believe each of them.” Marina Davydova, Izvestia, 02/03/2004
Drama in 4 acts
The performance has one intermission
The duration of the performance is 3 hours 20 minutes.
Compound:
Stage director - People's Artist of the USSRYuri Solomin
Production designer - Honored Worker of Culture of RussiaAlexander Glazunov
Musical arrangement - People's Artist of RussiaGrigory Gobernik
Director - Vasily Fedorov
Lighting designer - Honored Artist of RussiaDamir Ismagilov
Assistant directors - Honored Cultural Workers of RussiaVladimir Egorov And Ghana Markina
Prompters - a condemned cultural worker of RussiaLarisa Merkulova, Honored Artist of RussiaLarisa Andreeva
Cast:
Prozorov Andrey Sergeevich People's Artist of Russia - A.V. KLYUKVIN, A.Yu.BELY
Natalya Ivanovna, his fiancee, then his wife - Honored Artist of Russia I.V. IVANOVA, I.A. ZHERYAKOVA
Olga - People's Artist of Russia A.I. OKHLUPINA
Masha - People's Artist of Russia, Laureate of the State Prize of Russia O.L. PASHKOVA
Irina - V.V. ANDREEVA
Kulygin Fedor Ilyich, gymnasium teacher, Masha’s husband - People’s Artist of Russia V.K. BABYATINSKY
Vershinin Alexander Ignatievich, lieutenant colonel, battery commander - People's Artist of Russia A.Yu. ERMAKOV
Tuzenbakh Nikolai Lvovich, baron, lieutenant - Honored Artist of Russia, laureate of the State Prize of Russia G.V. PODGORODINSKY
Soleny Vasily Vasilievich, staff captain - Honored Artist of Russia V.A. Nizovoy, A.E. FADDEYEV
Chebutykin Ivan Romanovich, military doctor - Honored Artist of Russia Vl.B. NOSIK, Honored Artist of Russia V.V. BUNAKOV
Fedotik Alexey Petrovich, second lieutenant - S.A. KORSHUNOV, D.A. MARIN
Rode Vladimir Karpovich, second lieutenant - A.E. FADDEYEV, D.A. MARIN
Ferapont, watchman from the zemstvo council, old man - People's Artist of Russia A.S. KUDINOVICH
Anfisa, nanny, old woman 80 years old - N.P. Shvets
Maid in the Prozorovs' house - D.N. PODGORNAYA
Batman - A.T. MANKE
Contents of the play “Three Sisters” at the Maly Theater in Moscow
His play “Three Sisters” by A.P. Chekhov wrote in 1900, and for more than a century the play of the same name has not left the stage, continuing to delight audiences with the story of three sisters, the story of dreams and unfulfilled hopes.
The scene is a provincial provincial town in which the Prozorov sisters live - Olga, Masha and Irina. Their life is monotonous, monotonous and boring. And when a military garrison is located in the town, the sisters have hope for change.
The middle sister Masha falls in love with officer Vershinin, the youngest Irina falls in love with Baron Tuzenbach. But the happiness that the sisters were waiting for turned out to be capricious: Masha’s dreams will not come true, and Irina will lose her beloved forever. And then the regiment will leave the city, and life will go on as before, and the phrase “To Moscow, to Moscow!” will become a symbol of unfulfilled desires.
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Review of the Maly Theater performance “Three Sisters”
Vera Maksimova (“Native Newspaper”):
“Those who would like to find Mkhatovsky’s Chekhov in the new Maly Theater production of “Three Sisters” will be disappointed. Maly has its own Chekhov. Brighter, more simple-minded, more diverse. Without much concern for maintaining Chekhov's tone (muted), style (noble and refined), rhythm (slow). In Maly they play life, without hiding how painfully and cruelly it hits. Tragedies and dramas are repeated, desires are not fulfilled, but hope does not die. Each act in a large, long performance ends not in ruin, but in the rebirth of hope.”
Natalya Kazmina (“Theater Life”):
“It would seem that the traditions of the Maly Theater and the dramaturgy of Chekhov are two completely different views, two completely different points of view on the world around and inside the individual, but it so happened that in different eras of its existence the theater felt an unimaginable need precisely for this author, with the help of whom he talked about what hurts, what does not give peace and harmony. And remarkable, albeit completely unexpected, coincidences of “blood type” occurred, allowing us to discern something hitherto unknown in Chekhov’s dramaturgy, and in the fate of the Maly Theater, and in our spectator’s sense of the world and ourselves...
The play “Three Sisters”, staged by Yuri Solomin (designer A. Glazunov, music by G. Gobernik), can be called, without exaggeration, one of those magical coincidences, when with others, as if with washed eyes, you see artists you have known for a long time, in your soul you feel shades that were almost missed before by heart of a familiar text, you build for yourself a different system of concepts.”
(MAIN SCENE: Teatralny Proezd, 1 (Teatralnaya metro station) and ORDYNKA SCENE: Bolshaya Ordynka St., 69 (Dobryninskaya metro station))
Drama in 4 acts (3 hours)
A.P. Chekhov
1200 - 4000 rub.
Performance THREE SISTERS
Ticket prices:
Balcony: 1200-2000 rub.
Mezzanine: 1500-2500 rub.
Amphitheater, boxes: 1800-3000 rub.
Parterre: 2300-4000 rub.
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Review of "Theater Afisha"
“This is a furious author” - this is how Armen Dzhigarkhanyan understands Chekhov. He found an early, uncorrected version of the play for this production - and he was not mistaken with his choice. But even the author’s usual remarks are unrecognizable here. They hurt the ear, get stuck in the brain, they excite, anger, amaze.
The author of “Three Sisters” is a doctor, and he makes an unmistakable diagnosis for his characters. And there is no in the textbook “to Moscow, to Moscow!” There is no hope for any of them, there is no future. Only migratory birds are still flying somewhere above the Prozorovs’ house, and will fly “until God reveals the secret to them.”
The Prozorov sisters (Olga, Masha and Irina) are grieving in one of the provincial towns of the Russian province, where a military garrison is temporarily located. Against the backdrop of this immense provincial boredom, the relationship between the middle of the sisters, Masha and officer Vershinin, and the youngest, Irina and Baron Tuzenbach, unfold. Masha will never find her happiness, Irina will forever lose her loved one. The regiment will leave the city. The sounds of the military band fade away. Long, long days will drag on... “To Moscow, to Moscow!” - will remain an eternal symbol of the unfulfilled hopes of all the heroes of this drama by A.P. Chekhov.
Production director - Production designer - Alexander Glazunov
Musical arrangement - Grigory Gobernik
Director - Vasily Fedorov
Premiere: January 16, 2004.
Duration of the performance is 3 hours.
Prozorov Andrey Sergeevich People's Artist of Russia
Natalya Ivanovna, his fiancee, then his wife
Honored Artist of Russia
I.A.ZHERYAKOVA
Olga
People's Artist of Russia
A.I. OKHLUPINA
Masha
People's Artist of Russia
Laureate of the State Prize of Russia
O.L. PASHKOVA
Irina
V.V. ANDREEVA
Kulygin Fedor Ilyich, gymnasium teacher, Masha’s husband
People's Artist of Russia
VC. BABYATINSKY
Vershinin Alexander Ignatievich, lieutenant colonel, battery commander
People's Artist of Russia
A.Yu. ERMAKOV
Tuzenbakh Nikolai Lvovich, baron, lieutenant
Honored Artist of Russia,
laureate of the State Prize of Russia
G.V. PODGORODINSKY
Soleny Vasily Vasilievich, staff captain
Honored Artist of Russia
V.A. GROSS
A.E. FADDEYEV
Chebutykin Ivan Romanovich, military doctor
People's Artist of Russia
E.E. MARTSEVICH
Honored Artist of Russia
V.B. SPOUT
Fedotik Alexey Petrovich, second lieutenant
S.A. KORSHUNOV
Rode Vladimir Karpovich, second lieutenant
A.E. FADDEYEV
YES. MARIN
Ferapont, watchman from the zemstvo council, old man
People's Artist of Russia
A.S. KUDINOVICH
Anfisa, nanny, old woman 80 years old
L.S. ANIKEEVA
Maid in the Prozorovs' house
L.S. ANIKEEVA
D.N. PODGORNAYA
Soldier
A.T.MANKE
This is truly one of the most wonderful plays of the world repertoire, one of the most complex plays by Chekhov (I already said once that “Uncle Vanya” for me is his most beautiful, most harmonious play, and “Three Sisters” is perhaps the most difficult his most disharmonious story). This is a whole layer of life, snatched by Chekhov, rubbed with his individuality, imagination, acute sense of illness, his skeptical-optimistic attitude towards life, which sometimes goes on independently of us and sometimes against our desires and aspirations; a life that you have to fight, a fate that you have to fight, even if you know that it will defeat you. Chekhov speaks earnestly about the beautiful hopelessness of our lives, about the tragic discrepancy between desires and reality, about how important it is to remain true to oneself and human dignity.
“Three Sisters” is a play about people, about people with ideals, maybe they can be called the intelligentsia, although I think that there are people with ideals in all layers of society, just as in all layers of society there are people without ideals or with lost ones ideals. I think that this topic is understandable to many people, especially today. All over the world today, people understand very well what unfulfilled hopes are, what failed plans are, lost illusions, unfulfilled loves, the harsh language of life in which one must preserve oneself and in which one must maintain dignity no matter what.
Lev Dodin
“Three Sisters” in the Maly Drama Theater is a very modern and deep reading of Chekhov’s text. Precisely reading, since our theater has almost forgotten how to read the author’s text. Dodin managed to penetrate amazingly deeply into the history of human destinies. This is a tragic performance, at the same time full of compassion, and also, if we talk about the light that is contained in this performance, then this, no matter how pompous it may sound, is the light of art. Because the tragic outcome of the play is played at the level of artistic perfection. For me, the play “Three Sisters” is not only a theatrical, but also a life event.
professor, doctor of art history
Alexey Bartoshevich
St. Petersburg theater magazine
...the legendary MDT director Lev Dodin manages a seemingly impossible trick - he amazingly combines the existential and the human in his performance. As is often the case with great European ensemble companies, the acting is almost frighteningly rich and nuanced. Sometimes you just want some of the heroes to get more time in Dodin’s all-encompassing broad focus. This is a performance of great beauty, full of sympathy and despair.
Time Out London
Great Britain, London
The legendary Maly Drama Theater from Russia gives us a performance based on Chekhov's play, full of dark sympathy
Andrzej Lukowski
The moments of outstanding directorial skill are endless and organically coexist with a troupe of artists who seem so rooted in the world of the performance that you believe that they themselves grew up on this ungrateful soil, in this unforgiving climate. And Dodin’s main and final achievement, of course, is that he created the performance not in the pure genre of comedy or tragedy, but managed to make the flow of the production and feelings in it as natural as breathing.
Internet portal Artsdesk
Great Britain, London
"Three Sisters" MDT at the Vaudeville Theater - Chekhov of crystal clarity
Tom Birkeno
Surprisingly attentive to the characters, the famous director Lev Dodin’s production of Chekhov’s play “Three Sisters” abandons luxurious scenery in favor of focusing on the main themes of the work: unrequited love and unfulfilled hopes.
Great Britain, London
"Three Sisters" at the Vaudeville Theater - a heartbreaking, surprisingly attentive performance
Dave Hollander
What Dodin’s artists do especially well is to play the sharp, sometimes absurd contradictions that coexist within each Chekhov’s hero in such a way that these contradictions seem absolutely natural to us. Dodin tore away the veil of melodic whining from Chekhov's play and showed us the inconsolable cruelty of life.
Telegraph newspaper
Great Britain, London
Chekhov's melodic masterpiece as an existential theater of horror
Claire Alfrii
The acting is distinguished by the richness and depth characteristic of the best in Russian theater. All the actors not only act, but live in their roles as if it were their second skin.
Guardian newspaper
Great Britain, London
A stunning Russian production of Chekhov's classic play
Michael Billington
This performance is an impeccable portrait of lives frozen forever in the amber of fate.
Times newspaper
Great Britain, London
THREE SISTERS
MDT, Lev Dodin: real people in psychological theater (the most masterly performance) Behind each character is a huge story, and looks, gestures, facial movements are just the tip of the iceberg. The unsaid is no less eloquent than the spoken. Dodin shows his heroes not as exalted intellectuals, but as ordinary people who are not colored by some of their actions (the sisters ironize Andrei unkindly and look down on Natasha - it is not surprising that she begins to take revenge!). This approach introduces a non-Chekhovian element of sensuality into the action and adds to the spiritual longing for a better life, a completely physical longing for love...
Online magazine Porusski
Such different sisters. Which one do you like?
Alena Moroz
The performance is full of surprises - it turns out that in the characters whom we are accustomed to consider meek, shabby creatures, an inner fire is bubbling. All the couples here - and unfulfilled loves are Chekhov's specialty - are incomparably more explosive and emotionally exhausting than I have ever seen in other productions. Even Irina's final embrace with Baron Tuzenbach, her fiancé, manages to first raise and then immediately kill our hopes. Forget everything you are sure of: with Dodin, a kiss is never just a kiss, it is a whole multi-volume novel in miniature.
Broadway World
Unforgettable, explosive “Three Sisters” at the Maly Drama Theater at the Kennedy Center
Andrew White
Believe me, thanks to the entire ensemble of the performance, a whole community of people appears before us, every moment of whose lives is worked out to the smallest detail, and it is these details that a real theatergoer marvels with gratitude at: how can one fit so much life into such the smallest units of time.
DCMetroTheaterArts
USA, Washington
Unbending: “Three Sisters” of the Maly Drama Theater on the stage of the Kennedy Center
Robert Michael Oliver
Dodin builds up the tension slowly, giving his characters, representatives of the upper middle class (who yearn so much about the future, as if anticipating that very soon everything will change radically) to marinate in their own despair for three and a half hours - but it’s such a meaningful three hours that you don’t really you don't want to rush time. The acting is magnificent, the voices are invariably magnificent - whether these actors throw abrupt words of anger at each other, or burst into romantic melancholic monologues.
Washington Post
USA, Washington
Nelson Presley
...watching MDT’s strict and bewitching production of “Three Sisters” directed by Lev Dodin, which is now playing at the Cutler Majestic Theatre, you can’t help but feel that you are in the world of Chekhov, that you are hearing his voice.
Boston Globe newspaper
Trapped far from Moscow: Arts Emerson presents "Three Sisters"
Don Icoin
This performance - in Russian with English subtitles - is not quite a classic version, full of raging passions and humor, it is not like the more ordinary, restrained, static productions of this play.
Internet portal "Southern Critic"
“Three Sisters” from ArtsEmerson: all sisters have a passion
Jack Crabe
There are no small roles here. Each actor or actress on their own can confidently stay in the foreground - and at the same time, they know how to perfectly fit into the numerous general pictures of relationships that Dodin created. These amazingly beautifully constructed and illuminated pictures of people’s relationships are like museum portraits, they live in your memory long after the end of the performance.
Online magazine "Art-Fuse"
"Reasons to love "Three Sisters" of the Maly Drama Theater"
Helen Epstein
The result was as exciting and exciting as life itself, thanks in no small part to the exceptional actors. This play by Chekhov is still a heartbreaking spectacle, but now lost illusions, faded dreams, impossible and lost love, lost in the sands of modernity or a life destroyed by evil fate - all this acquires truly unprecedented power.
Le Monde
(World)
“Three Sisters” as read by Dodin
Fabienne Darge
Staged by him with a surprisingly organic mixture of delicacy and courage, Lev Dodin’s performance is marked by emotionally multifaceted, precisely and detailed performances of almost all the main roles. ...the acting in this performance often rises to a piercing intensity, completely refuting the clichéd idea of Chekhov's heroes as timid sufferers...
USA
Just try to believe: life will get better
Charles Isherwood
This is a close-up performance. All the feelings in him are brought to the forefront. All events are for human judgment. All hopes are in the palm of your hand. The concentration of mental pain there is maximum. Because it's all about us. About our anxieties, fruitless searches for happiness and the inevitable finding of the end. About the ability to hope and the talent not to be disappointed. Even if at the very beginning of life there is not a single illusion left... In Dodin’s “Three Sisters” they love desperately and contrary to all common sense. They know how to think, but are not afraid to feel and speak openly about their feelings. And most importantly, they have a need to love.
Russian newspaper
In two hundred to three hundred years: What do Lev Dodin’s “Three Sisters” dream about?
Irina Korneeva
Dodin is still interested in human life. Being. Subtleties of relationships. And – the opportunity (or need) to remain alive when everything in the world around us contradicts this.
They always kiss the wrong ones
Alisa Nikolskaya
Three Sisters" - Dodin's further comprehension of Chekhov on a new, deeper level. The performance is conceptual. Chekhov has long been proclaimed one of the founders of the theater of the absurd, but in the theater, at least in the domestic theater, this feature of Chekhov’s poetics was first embodied by Lev Dodin.
Ticket prices:
Balcony 1000-1500 rubles
Mezzanine 1000-2200 rubles
Amphitheater 1200-3000 rubles
Benoir 2500-3000 rubles
Parterre 3000-4500 rubles
Stage director - People's Artist of the USSR Yuri Solomin
Production designer - Honored Worker of Culture of Russia Alexander Glazunov
Musical arrangement - People's Artist of Russia Grigory Gobernik
Director - Vasily Fedorov
Lighting designer - Honored Artist of Russia Damir Ismagilov
Assistant directors - Honored Cultural Workers of Russia Vladimir Egorov and Gana Markina
Prompters - honored cultural worker of Russia Larisa Merkulova, Honored Artist of Russia Larisa Andreeva
Characters and performers:
Prozorov Andrey Sergeevich - Honored Artist of Russia Alexander Bely
Natalya Ivanovna, his fiancee, then his wife - Honored Artist of Russia Inna Ivanova, Irina Zheryakova
Olga, his sister - People's Artist of Russia Alena Okhlupina
Masha, his sister - Laureate of the Russian Government Prize, People's Artist of Russia Olga Pashkova
Irina, his sister - Varvara Andreeva, Olga Pleshkova
Kulygin Fedor Ilyich, gymnasium teacher, Masha’s husband - People’s Artist of Russia Valery Babyatinsky
Vershinin Alexander Ignatievich, lieutenant colonel, battery commander - Laureate of the Russian Government Prize, People's Artist of Russia Alexander Ermakov
Tuzenbakh Nikolai Lvovich, baron, lieutenant - Laureate of the State Prize of Russia, Honored Artist of Russia Gleb Podgorodinsky
Soleny Vasily Vasilievich, staff captain - Honored Artist of Russia Viktor Nizovoy, Alexey Faddeev
Chebutykin Ivan Romanovich, military doctor - People's Artist of Russia Vladimir Nosik, Honored Artist of Russia Viktor Bunakov
Fedotik Alexey Petrovich, second lieutenant - Stepan Korshunov, Dmitry Marin
Rode Vladimir Karpovich, second lieutenant - Alexey Faddeev, Dmitry Marin, Maxim Khrustalev
Ferapont, watchman from the zemstvo council, old man - People's Artist of Russia Alexey Kudinovich
Anfisa, nanny, old woman 80 years old - Natalya Shvets
Maid in the Prozorovs' house - Daria Podgornaya, Anna Zharova
Batman - Andrey Manke
Anton Pavlovich Chekhov's play "" is not only a masterpiece of Russian (and world) literature, but also a work that has long occupied first place in the repertoire of the world's leading theaters. More than a hundred years have passed since the creation of the play, but not even a single year has it left the stage of the theater, nor has it lost its relevance and the love of the audience. It has been staged over a thousand times, translated into many Eastern and European languages, and repeatedly dramatized and filmed. The Maly Theater's production is one of the most interesting. This is not the first season that the play “Three Sisters” has been running at the Maly Theater. Its director is Yuri Solomin, and the leading roles involve brilliant and talented actors. It’s not just the capital’s audience that is delighted with Solomin’s interpretation of “Three Sisters.” The Maly Theater always demonstrates this performance on tour, and foreign audiences (and theater critics) invariably receive it with great warmth.
There is an opinion that the characters of the Prozorov sisters - Olga, Irina and Masha - were borrowed from the famous progressive Perm ladies of that era, Margarita, Evelina and Ottilia Zimmerman. The Zimmerman sisters made a significant contribution to the development of Perm and influenced the development of education and culture of the city. For Chekhov, for many years, issues of educational and cultural institutions were a matter of honor, and therefore the writer could not ignore the merits of these wonderful women. The thoughts that the writer put into the mouths of the Prozorov sisters - statements about the improvement of Russia in general and his native provincial city in particular - are the statements of their prototypes, the Zimmerman sisters. However, when creating the characters of these wonderful female characters, the writer could not limit himself to only socio-cultural views. Young and unmarried sisters suffer not only from the suffocating and musty atmosphere of the province, not only from the lack of opportunities for self-realization, but also from unfulfilled love. The Maly Theater actresses playing the roles of the Prozorov sisters do an excellent job with this task; in their embodiment, Olga, Masha, and Irina are living, real girls with their own thoughts, feelings, and destiny.
Solomin’s performance “Three Sisters” at the Maly Theater is thorough and leisurely. A long-gone era with signs of the times, with different ideas about life and relationships, is clearly presented to the audience. An antique clock slowly ticks in a cozy living room, a lamp softly illuminates the room... An elegant society gathers in the sisters' living room, but the prose of provincial life haunts the girls, they hate it with all their souls, but live like this, realizing that there will be no other. The hopelessness of their situation is acutely felt by Olga, Masha, and Irina, with despair and pain. Girls have dreams, plans and hopes, but they are not destined to come true. Days turn into weeks, weeks into months, their souls are tormented, tormented by provincial melancholy. Perhaps this is why each of the sisters accepts failures in their personal lives with dignity, and the famous words - “To Moscow! To Moscow!" - they say, like a magic spell that can be the only salvation...
