REALITY THEATRE.('Brace Up!, St. Ann's Warehouse, Brooklyn, New York, New York)(Theater Review)

Could be Melikhovo, could be anywhere. The three sisters--Olga, Masha, and Irina--live with their brother, Andrei, in the provincial town where their father, a military man, was stationed, or retired, before he died, far from the family's former glory in Moscow. Here the siblings dream and dream, but none of them know where to direct their longings. Toward Moscow? Their dead father? It's all the same. Olga, a schoolteacher plagued by migraines, droops with refinement like a fat rose. Masha, trapped in an unhappy marriage, is a conundrum of belief and despair. Irina, an optimist who hoped that work, useful work, would be the cure for her malaise, becomes as tired of her own ...