[Reader-list] SEHAR presents a new play Chekhov's 'The Three Sisters' on 13 of May at School of Arts & Aesthetics Building, JNU, New Delhi

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Hi,

SEHAR (Society for Education, Harmony, Art, Culture and Media 
Reproduction) is going to perform its new play Chekhov's 'The Three 
Sisters' on 13 of May at School of Arts & Aesthetics Building, JNU. The 
Performance time will be 9.15 pm. The play is directed by Ramendra 
Chakarwarti, a PhD student of Performing Art department of SAA, JNU.


About The play
Three Sisters is a naturalistic play about the decay of the privileged 
class in Russia and the search for meaning in the modern world. It 
describes the lives and aspirations of the Prozorov family, the three 
sisters (Olga, Masha, and Irina) and their brother Andrei. They are a 
family dissatisfied and frustrated with their present existence. The 
sisters are refined and cultured young women who grew up in urban 
Moscow; however for the past eleven years they have been living in a 
small provincial town.Chekhov's initial inspiration was the general 
life-story of the three Brontë sisters, i.e., their refinement in the 
midst of provincial isolation and their disappointment in the 
expectations they had of their brother Branwell.Moscow is a major 
symbolic element: the sisters are always dreaming of it and constantly 
express their desire to return. They identify Moscow with their 
happiness, and thus to them it represents the perfect life. However as 
the play develops Moscow never materializes and they all see their 
dreams recede further and further.Meaning never presents itself and 
they are forced to seek it out for themselves.



Playwrite-Anton chekhov
Anton Pavlovich Chekhov ( 29 January 1860 – 15 July 1904) was a Russian 
short-story writer, playwright and physician, considered to be one of 
the greatest short-story writers in the history of world literature. 
His career as a dramatist produced four classics and his best short 
stories are held in high esteem by writers and critics. Chekhov 
practiced as a doctor throughout most of his literary career: "Medicine 
is my lawful wife", he once said, "and literature is my mistress."
Chekhov renounced the theatre after the disastrous reception of The 
Seagull in 1896; but the play was revived to acclaim in 1898 by 
Constantin Stanislavski's Moscow Art Theatre, which subsequently also 
produced Uncle Vanya and premiered Chekhov’s last two plays, Three 
Sisters and The Cherry Orchard. These four works present a challenge to 
the acting ensemble as well as to audiences, because in place of 
conventional action Chekhov offers a "theatre of mood" and a "submerged 
life in the text."
Chekhov had at first written stories only for financial gain, but as 
his artistic ambition grew, he made formal innovations which have 
influenced the evolution of the modern short story. His originality 
consists in an early use of the stream-of-consciousness technique, 
later adopted by James Joyce and other modernists, combined with a 
disavowal of the moral finality of traditional story structure. He made 
no apologies for the difficulties this posed to readers, insisting that 
the role of an artist was to ask questions, not to answer them.

About the Director
Ramendra Chakarwarti has been active in theatre both in theory and 
practice for more than 10 years. He has acted and directed dozens of 
thaetrical productions. ramendra is a Phd.
student of theatre and Performance studies, School of Arts and 
aesthetics JNU, and has completed his MPhil. from the same department. 
His research areas are Staging of Shakespear in post-independence India 
in context of Al Kazi and Utpal Dutt and Shakespear in Russia.Mr. 
Chakarwarti has participated in various workshops with Ralph Yaro 
(London), Satyajit(NSD) Vineet Kumar(actor),Bishnupriya Dutt, Urmi Mala 
Sarkar, Lokendra Arabam, Suman Kumar(NSD) Shomyabtrata Chaudhari on 
different occassions. Mr. Chakarwarti ahs produced and directed plays 
like Luv Kush, Abhimanyu Vadh, Parashuram, Sapno ki nagari, poos ki 
raat Hey ram. He has acted in plays Staged in India as well as abroad


Credit and Cast

On Stage
Andrei Sergeyevich Prozorov(Andrey)-Priyansh
Natalia Ivanovna(Natasha)-Priyanka Chhablani
Olga Sergeyevna Prozorova(Olya)-Anannya Bohidar
Maria Sergeyevna Kulygina(Masha)-Shraddha Lambe
Irina Sergeyevna Prozorova(Ira)-Sarita Nanda
Fyodor Ilich Kulygin-Nishit Kumar
Aleksandr Ignatyevich Vershinin-Rajkumar Yadav
Baron Nikolai Lvovich Tuzenbach-Himanshu Shekhar
Staff Captain Vassily Vasilyevich Solyoni-Pankaj Kuamar Chaubey
Ivan Romanovich Chebutykin-Aniruddha Kumar
Ferapont-Jyoti Kant Bhoi
Anfisa-Divya Surana

Behind the Stage
Music-Satish Mukhtlif
Light-Mrityunjay Prabhakar
Costume-Shraddha, Priyanka
Props-Himanshu, Pankaj, Alok
Poster and others- Rikimi Madhukaillya, Rajkumar
Publicity- Pankaj Chaubey
Stage Manager-Nishit,Aniruddha
Rehearsal Coordinator-Shraddha
Coproducer-Mrityunjay Prabhakar
Assistant Director-Vikas Singh,Prabhakar sachan, Rajkumar Yadav
Script-Anton Chekhov
Translation-Parikalpana Prakashan Lucknow
Design and Direction-Ramendra Chakarwarti

Plz come and be part of this play.


Thanking You

Mrityunjay Prabhakar
Secretary, SEHAR