DF: I feel like I want to tell a story that makes people reconsider their own lives.... I definitely know what the message is that it gives me. At the same time I hate as an audience member being told explicitly what the message is in a piece of art.
THC: But you understand Three Sisters as a play about the limitations people place on themselves.
DF: [The sisters] decide that they can’t go to Moscow. They choose their own limitations and then they act as though those limitations were created by an outside force.... There is no point at which that choice is taken away from them definitely. If it were another play, there would be the scene where their tickets burn, or some enormous cathartic event where all hopes are dashed.
THC: Does Three Sisters suffer without those cathartic moments?
DF: The negotiations, the victories and defeats can be actually more compelling than violent explosive moments, because I think they ring more heartbreakingly true to life.