Overview
Adult siblings Vanya and Sonia reside in their old family home in Bucks County, Pennsylvania,
mourning their lost dreams and missed opportunities. When their often-wrong, fortune-telling maid
Cassandra warns of impending dangers, and their movie star sister, Masha, arrives unexpectedly
with young, sexy, boy toy, Spike, the family is launched into a rollicking weekend of one-upmanship,
exposed nerves, and a lot of broken mugs. Also on the scene is a lovely young aspiring actress
named Nina, whose prettiness somewhat worries the imperious Masha. Masha, who owns the
family house, has decided to sell it. There is nothing Vanya and Sonia can do about it legally, but
after a raucous costume party down the road (Masha as Snow White insisting that everyone else
dress as her dwarves), by the end of the play Masha has changed her mind, and Vanya and Sonia can
return to their lives, with maybe some hope for a better future, and generally better attitudes.
