THEA 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 24: Konstantin Stanislavski, Nanny, Samovar
3/16/18
The Three Sisters
• How does The Three Sisters seem different from the other plays we’ve read in class?
▪ Plays weve read:
• Master Harold…and the Boys
• M. Butterfly
• Antigone
• Much Ado About Nothing
o Characters are three-dimensional/have depth
o Subject matter is more relevant
• Who is in the play?
o The Prozorov Family:
▪ Olga Sergeyevna Prozorova
• Oldest
• Wears blue
• Dwells on the past in Moscow
▪ Maria Sergeyevna Kulygina (Masha)
• Only wears black
▪ Irina Sergeyevna Prozorova
• Youngest
• Her birthday and anniversary of father’s death
• Wears white dress
• Tries to see the bright side of things
▪ Andrei Sergeyvich Prozorov (Andrey)
o (sort of) Family:
▪ Fyodor Ilyich Kulygin (Kulygin)
• Loves his life, wife, and job
▪ Natalia Ivanova (Natasha)
• Usually wears pink with green belt
• Has no taste
▪ Ferapont
• Very very old, mostly deaf
▪ Anfisa
• Very very old, the Prozorov family’s nanny
o The Soliders:
▪ Lt. Col. Aleksandr Ignatyevich Vershinin
• Played by Stanislavski
• Wife is suicidal
▪ Staff Capt. Vassily Vasilyevich Solyony
• Repelling – makes crude remarks throughout the play
• In love with Irina
▪ Lt. (and Baron) Nikolai Lvovich Tusenbach
▪ Capt./Dr. Ivan Romanovich Tchebutykin
• Forgetful and incompetent
