The Three Sisters | Irina Prozorov

Irina Prozorov
Irina is the youngest sister, not just in age but in her vibrant personality. Act I starts with Irina's twentieth birthday, with her feeling girlish and happy with the world. Having been raised in an aristocratic family, she idealizes work as the solution to all of life's problems, knowing that work can solve the great problem faced by characters in this play, that of living life with meaning. When Tuzenbach proposes to her in Act I, Irina changes the subject to work. A year later, in the Act II, Irina is exhausted from her work at the telegraph...

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