Drama Classics: The World's Great Plays at a Great Little Price Chekhov's masterpiece of provincial claustrophobia, translated and introduced by Stephen Mulrine. Living in a provincial army barrack town, Olga, Masha and Irina are finding life dull and long for the vitality of Moscow. Meanwhile their brother's wife begins to take over their house and their lives. Anton Chekhov's play Three Sisters was first performed in 1901 at the Moscow Art Theatre. This translation by Stephen Mulrine, published in the Nick Hern Books Drama Classics series, was first staged by Bristol Old Vic and Out of Joint on tour in 1995.