Opening Night: 27 February 2021
Author: Anton Chekhov
Title: Three Sisters
Original Title: Три сестры
Translator: Agnieszka Lubomira Piotrowska
Director: Jan Englert

Auditorium: Boguslawski Hall 

Running time: 2 hours 40 min including one interval

Three Sisters

Jan Englert is once again directing the works of Anton Chekhov.

Three Sisters is considered one of the most important plays in the world drama canon.
Olga, Masza and Irina live in a provincial town, not knowing whether they will manage to break out into the big world, settle their lives happily there or remain in eternal unfulfilling.

„The music is so gay, so joyful, and, it seems that in a little while we shall know why we are living, why we are suffering… If we could only know, if we could only know!” 

director: Jan Englert
set design, costumes: Andrzej Witkowski
music: Piotr Moss 
lighting design: Audrius Jankauskas

Cast:

Andrei Prozorov – Marcin Przybylski
Natalia, Andrei’s fiancé – Milena Suszyńska (till June 12, 2021) / Marta Wągrocka (from June 13, 2021; as a guest actor from September 1, 2023)
Olga – Dominika Kluźniak
Masha – Wiktoria Gorodeckaja
Irina – Michalina Łabacz
Fyodor Kulygin, a high school teacher, Masha’s husband – Grzegorz Małecki
Aleksandr Vershinin, commander of the artillery battery – Jan Frycz
Baron Nikolaj Tuzenbach– Piotr Kramer
Vassily Solyony, Staff captain – Karol Pocheć
Ivan Chebutykin, an army doctor – Mariusz Benoit
Aleksej Fedotik – Mateusz Kmiecik
Vladimir Rode – Jakub Gawlik
Ferapont, door-keeper at the local council offices – Jacek Różański
Anfisa, elderly nurse – Anna Chodakowska
Musician – Konrad Żygadło (guest actor)

and
Gaelic Harp Julia Łopuszyńska (guest musician) / Zuzanna Federowicz (guest musician)
Piano Mirosław Jastrzębski

Production team:

  • director's assistant: Beata Ścibakówna
  • sound technicians: Mariusz Maszewski, Hubert Majewski, Marek Szymański
  • lighting technicians: Zbigniew Szulim, Bartłomiej Kaczalski, Krzysztof Łukasz Stefan
  • stage manager: Krzysztof Kuszczyk
  • prompter: Magdalena Markowska


    Licence for this stage production was granted by the Society of Authors – ZAiKS.

    Gallery:

    Wiktoria Gorodeckaja (Masha), Michalina Łabacz (Irina), Dominika Kluźniak (Olga). Phot. Krzysztof Bieliński

     

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