TAPS's Fall Main Stage is Anton Chekhov's "Three Sisters" — Directed by TAPS Lecturer Stephanie Hunt. Audition time slots are open at https://taps.stanford.edu/threesisters-auditions

TAPS is partnering with the Arts Intensive* and COLLEGE programs as part of campus-wide involvement in this production. Actors who are cast, Assistant Directors, and Dramaturgs will rehearse the play in the fall quarter of 2024 and will participate in the Art Intensive as part of the rehearsal and research process. Following Arts Intensive, Three Sisters comes with course credit (TAPS 122P) and requires rehearsals five to six times per week. Not all students will be called for every rehearsal.

ABOUT THE PRODUCTION

On the brink of a new era three sisters, living in a small boring town, dream of a better life in the big city where they were born. Over the next three years, the sisters fall in love, work, banter about the meaning of life, and struggle to keep their dreams alive. Anton Chekhov penned this poignant and humorous play in 1900 for his friends and his wife, the actors of the Moscow Art Theater, to perform. Our production will be set in the year it was written.

Rehearsing Chekhov’s Three Sisters we will focus particularly on character and relationship, ensemble building, physical play, subtext, and sensory life. The humor, absurdity, mystery, and empathy found in Chekhov’s work will be explored. Through research into 19th-century Russian culture and Chekhov’s short stories, we will actively investigate how clothing, art, manners, music, politics, and food affect movement and behavior. Using techniques developed by the great acting teacher Stanislavsky, including text analysis and improvisation, we will embody the play’s characters and events, while exploring gesture, tempo-rhythm, physical centers, and archetypes.