"In this production (it’s a version of Three Sisters) Irina was played by a much older actress. I remember hearing her speeches and thinking about them so differently. They were both funnier and sadder than I'd ever experienced them. It all seemed idiotic and yet completely devastating. And then some wonderful theatrical wizardry would happen and you would be jerked into another way of thinking about life and about art. And, I remember the end: the play just kind of stopped."