Three Sisters, Anton Chekhov

the Moscow Arts Theatre. A play in four acts, the first three acts are separated by a year's time, showing the change in the characters's lives. As one of the characters says near the end of the play: The music is so happy, so confident, and you long for life! O my God! Time will pass, and we shall go away for ever, and we shall be forgotten, our faces will be forgotten, our voices, and how many there were of us; but our sufferings will pass into joy for those who will live after us, happiness and peace will be established upon earth, and they will remember kindly and bless those who have lived before. Oh, dear sisters, our life is not ended yet. We shall live! The music is so happy, so joyful, and it seems as though in a little while we shall know what we are living for, why we are suffering. . . . If we only knew -- if we only knew! Unrequited love, unfulfilled dreams, crushing melancholy: everything for which we love Russian Literature. Two productions of the full play: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tGPTcIOsqO4https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sE1JFOCmd6M A radio production of the play, by Brian Frel the Irish playwright. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QE_WVu0jZ8k