About this audiobook
Olga, Masha and Irina Prozorova live in a provincial town while repeatedly imagining a return to Moscow. Their longing is connected with memories of an earlier life and the hope that a different place might allow their abilities and feelings to find a fuller expression. Everyday obligations, however, continue to shape the future they expect to change.
Anton Chekhov follows relationships in which affection, disappointment and the need for purposeful work are closely entangled. Conversations about happiness and tomorrow exist beside the practical demands of the present. Encounters with officers and members of the household reveal different ways of responding to a life that seems to be passing without permission.
The play explores time, belonging and the gap between aspiration and action. Its emotional force comes from people whose wishes are understandable but do not always bring them closer to one another, and from the persistence of hope within circumstances that resist a simple resolution.
