ABSTRACT
The ‘Three Sisters’ is not as great a play as ‘The Seagull’ or ‘Uncle Vanya’. It is too diffuse. The lights and shades of humour and pathos make of it a bewildering pattern, and the pattern never quite becomes sufficiently ordered to produce a culminating effect. It is a sketch rather than a finished picture. . . . This sketchiness makes the ‘Three Sisters’ very difficult to act and to produce. I do not like [Komisarjevsky's] obsession of strange lighting for the sake of pictorial effect when it obscures the drama. And his disposition of his scenes is sometimes a little awkward. . . . But he does make his players act. . . .
