Three Sisters, lost in time

TorontoSun.com: "Few great plays have a best-before date, but most of them do have a best-during date. Case in point: Anton Chekhov's Three Sisters. It's a work so firmly anchored in the backwater of Czarist Russia that to set it in any other time and place makes no sense whatsoever, rendering as it does the ennui that grips the characters and squeezes the life from them almost laughable."