Three Sisters is a three-part monologue.

It begins in media res, immediately after the only train to Moscow has been missed. There, the Three begin an ecstatic journey, parallel to the railway line:

a long, cold journey through the body that will lead to a city that nobody knows what it is or what it looks like. Each of them is a station on this journey to the dream of the capital, so each of them is a different act: Irina - Macha - Olga. A Matrioska.

First, Irina says "let's work, let's work"; then Macha shouts "we need to live, we need to live" and, at the end, Olga: "if we only knew, if we only knew..."

Irina, the youngest, written by Luísa Monteiro, is the white teenager looking for red, wanting to use her body in favour of the utopia of the world. She discovers a womb-refuge-home in her inward journey. She is an IRINA from the early 20th century, a bourgeois fascinated by the work of the labour force, who wants to "break gravel in winter".

"It's where we're not that we're good."
Chekhov

Macha is still about dreams. Written by Valério Romão, it comes with spring and brings mourning for life, among loose words that, apparently, no one knows how to hear, although everyone listens. From the languages he speaks, he has stolen the pointlessness of thinking alone, only not to change life. The sister-of-the-middle, between being and not being like the people who enter her life from the outside, made herself into the church that is theatre, a temple of solitude religiously shared with "others".

"That I know very well what I'm running from, and not what I'm looking for."
Montaigne

Olga, the primary school teacher, the older sister, the one who wears blue. Olga, written by Rui Pina Coelho, follows the life she was taught at the school where she now teaches, spreading ambitions between words, suffocating from the boredom of life passing by without her ever being able to grasp it. Olga's thoughts know how to be silent and laughing. It's wise and cynical. Olga, the Saint, sacrificing her days in orphanhood in favour of the beautiful future to come. Tripalium! Neither Irina went to the factory, nor Macha left the theatre. But Olga, locked away in the school, from tiredness to tiredness, ended up living the infinite.

If she only knew...

"What we see is not what we see, but what we are."
Fernando Pessoa

The three sisters tried to leave the house.
Go to the station.
Waiting for the train.

Maybe they missed the train.
Perhaps there was no train.

Maybe they didn't leave.
They didn't leave.

The station has been decommissioned.

They didn't know where Moscow was.
Maybe there is no Moscow.

The Three Sisters closed the windows.

Text - Luisa Monteiro, Valério Romão and Rui Pina Coelho
Creation - Cátia Terrinca and Francisco Salgado
Interpretation - Cátia Terrinca
Light Design - João P. Nunes
Sound Design - Alexandre Vaz
Scenography - Suzana Alves da Silva
Support - Jesús Manuel
Graphic Design - João P. Nunes
Photographs - Alípio Padilha, Vitor Paiva, Mário Pires, João P. Nunes and Vitorino Coragem
Production - A COLLECTIVE

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Fundação GDA, Lx Factory, Lojas Humana, MARL - Mercado Abastecedor da Região de Lisboa, LUZEIRO, EKA Palace, PortTravel, Associação Iuri Gagarin, Centro Estudos Eslavos, Teatro Ibérico, CML, Junta de Freguesia do Beato, Junta de Freguesia da Ajuda, Junta de Freguesia de Marvila, Junta de Freguesia de Penha de França, Ticketline, IEFP