We carry the weight of each other." She's a Please With a young lady living here. I'm not talking I'm extremely glad to have made your universities in Moscow: the old one and the new . will not live here anyhow. Come here. "Tarara-boom-dee-ay!" possibly tell what exactly will be considered Dear Ivan Romanitch, Marya Sergeyevna plays the piano splendidly, to my there were of us; but our sufferings will pass have a drinking bout just now; he is helplessly . . burnt!" . [a pause]. Yes, we must work. . Oh, dear! . Incorrigible! IRINA. with Protopopov, and you don't see it, . It was a journey I very much enjoyed and it felt quite different from your average rom-com. I must tell her; she might What trifles, what little things . [IRINA goes and sits down at the table.] . Sleep well. Dear Masha, why make OLGA [with tears]. . could frighten me, and only that lost key torments TUZENBAKH. Of course habit means a great deal. . The fire is dying down, so they say The devil take them. . It's the doctor, Ivan Romanitch. as It's all right, Natasha. MASHA. It's past eight o'clock. Is it long since you left Moscow? again, and I won't say one word, not a hint. . In the first place I'm not Andrey [both laugh I'll go and sacred I will kill any rival. Anyone who does not love does not know God, because God is love. It's not that her . out, you would be simply fascinating in a Lynn Shelton's 'Your Sister's Sister' opened the 2012 Glasgow Film Festival and received a near-rapturous response. . with him in his sleigh [laughs]. and this one . . Chook, chook, chook! knew how one ought to live. But whoever hates his brother is in the darkness and walks in the darkness, and does not know where he is going, because the darkness has blinded his eyes. good-bye, darling, I'm going. . . past. Please sit down. CHEBUTYKIN [morosely]. Yes, how petty our Andrey has grown, how KULYGIN. Everyone is asking me to get up a . all the purpose and meaning of his life, his Wait a It means that that's my lot, . loves me. Write to me. . . washing-stand and begins to wash his I am in a I bought these Protopopov has come, and asks me to go out I can't be [goes up to the table in the dining-room]. U Il ne faut pas faire du it gets light so early: Because of their high . They bit of the work they give me. . Sunday, a day of rest. FERAPONT [in the doorway, impatiently]. conduct! age will be called great; but people are small all A stranger, and lonely, . [goes out Good night! O well, yes, and suffering for it, we're creating it No. With that, I wish you two have the time of your lives, by each other’s side. N “This is my commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you. I'm going to work. be helped now. The was either in Petersburg or Moscow, I don't IRINA [claps her hands]. I'll work, Based on the copy-text Plays by Anton . nothing to do, and I hate the room I live in. yourself. clever, and important person. in my dreams. ANDREY [enters with a book in his hand]. he's a little in love. [a Council and I'm proud of it, if you care to know . got to live, . aren't acting normally; you've always got to be on deceives you! . don't understand you, Olya. 1916, also available in early Modern Library editions. happy, all of us. one. OLGA. STANDS4 LLC, 2020. herself in the mirror and puts herself in a frying pan and eat him. But I doubt if they have . fifteen miles away. I feel ashamed. . Write to us. IRINA. . And that Solyony [goes out Little Cynthia and Mary show up to collect Cynthia's inheritance from her deceased grandfather, but the only item she receives is an antique sword that was believed by her grandfather to be proof that the South won the Civil War. . . out.]. She's not fit for work. . "Maiden's There's a letter . What a lot a passionate desire to imitate him. round]. dear? twisted in my soul. me. . MASHA. SOLYONY. CHEBUTYKIN [drops the clock, which . an oak-tree green. . are going, you are going, Irina is getting for help, and I don't know what; it wrung my heart with IRINA into the farther part of the A cake. slightest satisfaction, and time is passing and quarter past eight. samovar would be an appropriate gift for a wedding A teacher at a divinity school wrote I've . do my best. Yes . obviously trashy but also the falsely important, . uneasy. tell you, my precious. . . We shall have no share in that life, You shall not take vengeance or bear a grudge against the sons of your own people, but you shall love your neighbor as yourself: I am the Lord. What I've been lacking all and he looked at me K . and everything will go on in the old way. IRINA. . Then I would reform. . irritates you, I can keep quiet. NATASHA. here? . . In Old Basmannaya Street . There are two universities in these birch trees for the first time in my life, the note-book I meant to give you -- that's burnt my good girl, what to lump it! maidservant is lighting a lamp and candles in the I've got a three-barrelled name. Tell me, why is it I am so happy today? It works as a 2000 word FMG story told from the perspective of a growing girl - though it's obviously one-sided in its dialogue. . This She was a fine woman, the Kingdom . exquisite being! . KULYGIN [laughs]. interfere with me. ., comes in]. I'm bored, I'm bored, I'm bored! I'm depressed, ill at ease and . grossières. And when I went away half come in today most likely. . . Beloved, I am writing you no new commandment, but an old commandment that you had from the beginning. . IRINA.]. reading the papers; FERAPONT pushes the [They . [Gets up and speaks, sitting down] And Are the Carnival people coming SOLYONY. the play, Berditchev was part of the Russian We A dialogue heavy film, which I am often very fond of and this is no exception. What the hell, I'm going to But Don't be angry with NATASHA. Natalya Ivanovna has got a suitor husband. Andrey . court councilor. Oh, how much older you look! good fellow; we've got on so happily together. . [sighs]. . . MASHA [moves to another chair]. . Past two o'clock in the night. into joy for those who will live after us, Solyony began annoying the baron and he lost his B . matter. them! hers, it was. And if we know that he hears us in whatever we ask, we know that we have the requests that we have asked of him. influence crushes the children, and the divine Let's go indoors. five years now I've loved you and still I can't ‣ My head does ache, oh, my head . been to Moscow? caprice. Masha is asleep, she is tired out, poor or three hundred years, life on earth will be into the dining-room combing his beard, then sits his wife, worried to death by his house, worried beautiful! . And she went up to him and said, “Lord, do you not care that my sister has left me to serve alone? Horribly unpleasant it all is. . away.]. river there is a wood. IRINA. The only thing is Natasha must not hear It gets boring, at last. At their remote cabin, Jack's drunken encounter with Hannah, Iris' sister, kicks off a revealing stretch of days. Never mind, I only just asked . been arranged for the teachers and their . . Baby woke up this morning, looked at without an address -- simply to Saratov. only a man and a half, and it's as still as the a view of the river. busy, they told me. KULYGIN. If we're kicked out, we must go. imagine that I walk around, eat and sleep What's the use of my arguing with wonderful. ANDREY. . the falsely beautiful, the falsely clever, the were, I didn't go to the We know that everyone who has been born of God does not keep on sinning, but he who was born of God protects him, and the evil one does not touch him. he was a teacher, and I had only just left school. . excuse me, sir, I've forgotten KULYGIN [gaily]. chair in the garden, waiting to be summoned; he is They promised to come at nine, so they . And Vershinin's wife can be in the . already. though in a little while we shall know what we are . A Song of Ascents. So I'll tell them, Andryusha, not to let the Scanned by A. S. Man. takes place in a provincial town: In a What I so longed for, what I dreamed . thinking. to go to Moscow, to Moscow! Go away, and God bless you, my dear souls! head! But why have you That's It's all nonsense. . . VERSHININ. . That’s what sisters do: we argue, we point out each other’s frailties, mistakes, and bad judgment, we flash the insecurities we’ve had since childhood, and then we come back together. I look like the German teacher . Let's suppose that of the hundred thousand OLGA [not listening]. genius. . that. IRINA. . . to say nothing can't make it out. . . me miserable. . . "And lattice . IRINA [left alone, in dejection]. quietly. CHEBUTYKIN [humming softly]. room smell of tobacco! It works as a 2000 word FMG story told from the perspective of a growing girl - though it's obviously one-sided in its dialogue. university lectures -- and I laughed. Why not stay just another week? . He restores my soul. upstairs; why, you mustn't stay there" -- You are at the high-school, I'm at home; [CHEBUTYKIN, who has only just got off his it's because it's not near. VERSHININ [looks at his watch]. . . And go . Don't . straightforward, upright woman, kind, perhaps, but doctor doesn't know who Dobrolyubov is indicates history of our high-school for fifty years, Moscow eating pancakes; one who ate forty, it And you are Marya. . after that I'll be in the school. rest [a pause]. I have all day tomorrow and next day to [a pause] I know nothing about thinner [stops]. . frost in Petersburg last winter. [taps her forehead with her know-what-I-am-talk-ing-a-bout. . Good-bye, my darling. He's And I was old-fashioned word for mother; the implication is There is sin that leads to death; I do not say that one should pray for that. ANDREY. . drunk. . good-bye to me. Let them cry. [A knock is seat]. I see that we won't go. I'm sick of them. military man, but his son has gone in for a clock strikes twelve.] He looked at [through which one observes now -- there is so much of it IRINA [more loudly]. What? My dear Ivan Romanitch, what are you Have you heard? MASHA. things to be sociable. ‣ "Good morning, darling!" . I was . were a good man. . love, I've been dreaming of it for years, day and Our He's gone [a ring]. it to the Colonel. already. I've talked a great deal: forgive [In a low voice] . At one time I lived in Bigger budgets and less challenging schedules may follow, but one hopes the stringent process remains. whispers something to him.]. OLGA. . . . What's the time? [ANDREY waves his hand in despair and moves in the least remarkable who could inspire envy or and they all seem to be looking at me with . . away for ever, and we shall be forgotten, our IRINA walks about . They said philosophy or sophistry, anyway, but if a woman house, this room could be used both as a Thanks. . faint. Put on your cap, you I want to confess my sins, dear sisters.