Three Sisters
by Brian Friel
Male, Dramatic
VERSHININ: Oh, come on! (laughs) That's just not true. Educated, intelligent people are valuable in every community, even more valuable in a place like this. What's the population of this town? One hundred thousand? And there are three of you. Three Prozorovs encircled by one hundred thousand ignorant uneducated people. Of course you'll be eroded bit by bit, day by day, until finally the one hundred thousand will overwhelm you. But the fact that you're swallowed up doesn't mean you'll have made no impact. Because you will. You'll have influenced perhaps--let's say six other people. And in turn those six will influence twelve more. And that twelve another twenty-four. Until finally, finally people like you will be in the majority. Until finally in two or three hundred years' time the quality of life on this earth will be transformed and beautiful and marvelous beyond our imagining. Because that's the life man longs for and aspires to. And even though he hasn't achieved it yet, he must look forward to it, dream about it, prepare for it, But he can prepare for it only if he has more vision and more knowledge than his father or his grandfather.












