Three sisters live together in a cramped apartment in Brooklyn’s Bushwick neighborhood. They’re not from there. Nor, despite the occasional Chekhovian flourishes in Matt Minnicino’s Wyrd , are they from Moscow, longing to return. Instead, they’re more like the, well, weird sisters from Shakespeare’s Macbeth .

But in Minnocino’s 2018 play, now in a Chicago premiere with Lazy Susan Theatre Co. under Sonya Robinson’s direction, the powers that the sisters actually have seem as constrained as the Prozorov siblings—and like Chekhov’s sisters, we sometimes wonder why they just don’t get up and go back to Moscow, or wherever they might find peace. Whoever they work for controls them in ways that aren’t always clear in this sometimes compelling and sometimes frustrating look at women, mortali

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