Perpich Arts Theater Performance Stream

https://www.americantheatre.org/2017/08/22/a-history-of-u-s-documentary-theatre-in-three-stages/

A History of U.S. Documentary Theatre in Three Stages Both in content and form, documentary theatre in the U.S. has always been at theatre’s cutting edge.

This "Three Sisters" theater production is a summative evaluation of the theater students semester long study of Anton Chekhov and the naturalistic acting style often called the Stanislavsky System. The semester focuses on four major class outcomes:

Perform - The student’s work, in its final form, shows confident and consistent attention to style and genre.

Create - The student engages in the process of making theater.

Respond/Reflect - demonstrates command of the basic theatrical concepts, history, process, and vocabulary.

Connect - demonstrates connections to real world experiences & connects classrooms themes to current events.

The semester consisted of a variety experiential projects and tasks such as: adapting Chekhov short stories for the radio, performing radio plays, open scene work, scene work, Stanislavsky methods of playing action, and stasis.

"Three Sisters" by Anton Chekhov

ACT ONE
Inside the chatrooms of various characters from a provincial Russian town. It is midday; outside it is bright and sunny. In Irina’s room we see gifts and presents. Olga in the school dress for a teacher, is continually correcting exercise books. Masha sits with her hat on her knees and reads a book. Irina in a white dress is dancing and singing.

ACT TWO
The scene is the same as in the first act. It is a year later, Andrey and Natasha are married with a child. It is eight in the evening. Outside in the street, barely audibly, someone is playing an accordion.

ACT THREE
A year later, a fire breaks out in the town, it is between two and three in the morning. Sirens are sounding, power outages. It is evident that no one has been to bed so far tonight. The sisters and friends convene on cell phones during a night of trying to help the victims.

ACT FOUR
A little more than a year later, various members of the Prozorov household and their friends are in the chatroom. It is eleven in the morning. They are saying their farewells to friends who are leaving for sites unknown.

"Three Sisters" (Russian: Три сeстры́, romanized: Tri sestry) is a play by the Russian author and playwright Anton Chekhov. It was written in 1900 and first performed in 1901 at the Moscow Art Theatre. The play is often included on the short list of outstanding plays in modern theater and is seen as the catalyst for modern and contemporary western theater structures and acting styles.

painting by Konstantin Gorbatov