'Three Sisters' gives boredom its due at Gift

chicagotribune.com: "In the plays of Chekhov, to whine is divine. No other dramatist elevated disappointment into such a fetish. 'Three Sisters,' from 1901, divides its misery among the many inhabitants of and visitors to the Prozorov household, an estate situated somewhere in the boondocks of Russia -- far away from the cosmopolitan energy of Moscow."