THE SISTERS FRANKENSTEIN (A Mashup of Anton Chekhov’s Three Sisters & Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein)

THE SISTERS FRANKENSTEIN
(A Mashup of Anton Chekhov’s Three Sisters & Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein)

By Robert Caisley

What if Mary Shelley’s Dr. Frankenstein performed an organ transplant on Chekhov’s Three Sisters? You might come up with a comedy like this! In a sleepy, provincial Russian backwater, three cultured but eccentric sisters–heirs to their recently deceased father’s estate and his medical journals–live a numbingly mundane life until they decide to build the perfect companion to rescue them from their tedium. Their experiment works at first, forcing each of them to choose between the fantasies they’ve stitched together and a romanticized future in Moscow…or to find real meaning in the lives they’ve inherited.