Three Sisters

Olga, Masha, and Irina Prozorov live with their brother, Andrey, on the edge of a small Russian town. They are obsessed over the dream of moving back to the big city where they were raised, looking forward to returning to their old lifestyle. Olga, the eldest, is a teacher at the high-school, Masha is married to Kulygin, a teacher of far more years, who has not lived up to her stature and Irina, the youngest, dreams of a life far away from the town she lives in. Andrey, who has married Natasha, a harsh and domineering woman, abandons his intellectual dreams to be become a professor at the University in Moscow and leads an indifferent lifestyle, gambling his fortune away. The three sisters live passively their lives in the province, visited by various military officers, guests and entertainers, that remind them of their boredom and their need to live a different life, filled with liveliness, love and happiness. Soon, the officers are called away and the three sisters are left alone with unfulfilled dreams, trying to give meaning to their existence.

Translation: Giorgos Depastas – Alexandros Isaris 
Director: Christos Nicolaou 
Music: Themis Karamouratides
Set Design: Elena Katsouri
Costume Design: Elena Katsouri, Sosanna Tomazou
Lighting Design: Stavros Tartaris
Assistant to the Director: Haris Evripidou
Stage Manager: Elena Giorgallou
Production Management: Nicko Zavallis

Cast (in order of appearance): 
Lea Maleni, Niki Dragoumi, Niovi Charalambous, Spyros Stavrinides, Fotis Apostolides, Vasilis Charalambous, Adriani Maleni, Petros Yiorkadjis, Alexandros Parisis, Panos Makris, George Kyriacou, Christina Constantinou, Petros Konomou, Marcos Ioulios Drousiotis
On-stage musicians: Vasilis Vourvopoulos and Petros Yiorkadjis
Also appearing: Andreas Louka, Claudio Dimonu, Demetra Hadjiyianni and young Aggeliki Ioannide

Director’s Note
It is hard to talk about Chekhov. He belongs to a category of playwrights that you fell and live through their work, rather than analyse them. Since I first read the play, I fell in love with it and since, I have read it over and over … and over. Until the decision was taken; that I wanted to take this journey, and with me, as fellow travellers, have a myriad of trusted collaborators. Persons that I trust, respect their talent, their work, their professionalism. The show has been heightened by original score from Themis Karamouratides, whom I especially thank for his inspiration and input. I also thank all other cast and crew for entrusting me, for all their effort and professionalism but, above all, for this wonderful voyage. A voyage that has become the performance, and alongside the performance, a dream comes true. And yes, “each one’s Moscow, might not seem so distant anymore…”

PERSONA THEATRE COMPANY 
Persona Theatre Company was founded in 2004 by young distinguished theatre professionals as an independent, non-profit organization with the basic principle of promoting Theatrical Art and its related forms as interacting distilleries of artistic creation. Through the organization of theatrical performances, festivals, seminars, workshops and other activities, Persona Theatre Company have so far travelled and presented their work in England, Greece, Germany and Tenerife, and have collaborated with artists from Russia, Germany, Spain, Bulgaria, Greece and the United Kingdom, wanting to establish a substantial, continuous contact with important cultural centres around the world.

The major productions of the Company are: “Orlando” by Virginia Woolf (directed / adapted by Lea Maleni, 2004), won best actress award and best direction nomination at the TRS 2004-2006 awards. “Ø ISLANDS - INSELS - 'ISLAS – ΝΗΣΟΙ” (directed by Francisca Stis, 2009). “Witsplit, 4 + 1 seasons” by L. Maleni, V. Kokkinos, Chr. Constantinou and M. Mettis (directed by Lea Maleni, 2011). “The (M) adam's family! ...” by L. Maleni, Chr. Constantinou and Th. Ioannou (directed by Lea Maleni / music composed by Christina Argyris). This show had six nominations at the 2015 THOC Awards and won a total of 5. In 2016 Persona presented Nicky Silver’s play “Fat Men in Skirts” directed by Christos Nicolaou.

Duratuion: 140'
10+
Tickets: €10 / € 8 Rialto supporters / € 5 students, soldiers, senior citizens

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