Three Sisters

Summary

1954 BBC production of Anton Chekhov’s The Three Sisters.

Theatre play

Three Sisters by Anton Chekhov (1860-1904) [more information]

Play synopsis

Three Sisters probes the lives and dreams of Olga, Masha and Irina, former Muscovites now living in a provincial town from which they long to escape. their hopes for a life more suited to their cultivated tastes and sensibilities provide a touching contounterpoint to the relentless flow of events in the wider world.

Production history

First performed at the Moscow Art Theatre in 1901.

Date of transmission

Sunday 27 June 1954

Time

8.30-10.25pm

Channel

BBC Television

Production company

BBC

Credits

Producer

Harold Clayton

Playwright

Anton Chekhov (1860-1904)

Translator

Constance Garnett

Design Operatives Supervisor

Richard R. Greenough

Cast

Clare Austin	Irina
Robert Beaumont	Baron Tusenbach
Margaret Boyd	Anfisa
Cecil Brock	Second Lieut. Roddey
Margaret Bull	Musician
Rosalie Crutchley	Masha
Walter Fitzgerald	Ivan Romanitch Tchebutykin
John Leslie Frith	Ferapont
Elton Hayes	Second Lieut. Fedotik
Walter Hudd	Fyodor
John Kirkland	Musician
Tom McCall
Maureen Pryor	Natalya Ivanovna
Paul Rogers	Lieut,-Col. Vershinin
Margot van der Burgh	Olga
Michael Warre	Andrey Sergeyevitch Prozorov
Douglas Wilmer	Captain Solyony

Additional details

Later transmissions

Repeated on Thursday 1 July 1954 at 9.35pm.

Extant status

No archival copy is known to exist.

Play tags

Russian drama

Print sources

Title

Radio Times, 25 June 1954 (Magazine)

Linking notes

listing and illustrated article, p. 14