Three Plays After

"The Yalta Game: Two strangers meet on holiday and almost manage to convince one another that disappointments are 'merely the postponement of the complete happiness to come...'" "The Bear - A Vaudeville: Elena Popova, a young and attractive widow, has immersed herself in the role of mourning for her philandering but now dead husband. Luka, her frail and ancient man-servant, tries in vain to snap her out of it. Then Smirnov barges in..." Afterplay: 1920s Moscow, a small run-down cafe. Uncle Vanya's niece Sonya Serebriakova, now in her forties, is the only customer. Until the 'arrival of the Three Sisters' put-upon brother, Andrey Prozorov.