The siblings' cleaning lady. She delivers wild, accurate, voodoo-infused prophecies that no one believes.
The story centers on Vanya and his stepsister Sonia, who have spent their lives in their childhood home caring for their now-deceased parents. Their quiet, stagnant existence—marked by daily bickering and gazing at a pond—is shattered when their sister Masha, a glamorous but fading B-list movie star, arrives unannounced.
The play’s foundation is built upon the works of Russian dramatist Anton Chekhov. Playwright Christopher Durang describes the work not as a parody, but as if he took Chekhov’s characters and themes and put them "into a blender".