Anton Chekhov

Mustapha Matura

"Colonial Trinidad, 1941. Three sisters live a privileged life in Port of Spain with their unworldly brother and his domineering wife, occupying their lives with empty marriages and indiscreet liaisons. They dream of returning home to their adopted country England and the spires of Cambridge where they spent their cosmopolitan youth. But these ambitions of emigrating soon crumble as World War II escalates and the Trinidadian army are called to serve King, Country and Empire." "One of Chekhov's greatest plays, Three Sisters has been reworked by award-winning writer Mustapha Matura for Eclipse Theatre. One of the most prolific and lyrical Africa-Caribbean playwrights of his generation, his work includes Playboy Of The West Indies, As Time Goes By and the successful television series No Problem!"--BOOK JACKET.

Three Sisters

Rebecca Harwood

It goes without saying that you cannot conquer the 

s round you; little by little, as you go on living, you'll be lost in the crowd. You'll have to give in to it. Life will get the better of you, but still you'll not disappear without a trace. After you there may appear perhaps six like you, then twelve and so on until such as you form a majority. In two or three hundred years, life on earth will be unimaginably beautiful, marvellous. Man needs such a life and, though he hasn't got it yet, he must have a presentiment of it, expect it, dream of it, prepare for it; for that he must see and know more than his father and grandfather [

]. And you complain of knowing a great deal that's unnecessary.

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