In this last and arguably greatest of Chekhov’s monumental plays, an impoverished land-owning Russian family stands on the cusp of sweeping change, preferring fantasies and frivolity to hard choices and actions. Twelve passionate, flawed, funny, and utterly individual characters wrestle with the same pressing questions that still consume us a hundred years later: How can we find love? How do we escape our past mistakes? Why do we turn a blind eye to the very things we should solve? Why do we ache for what we cannot have? And how do we get through the day?