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Full-Length Play, Drama / 4w
Julia May Jonas
Two pregnant sisters converge at a remote family cabin in Vermont in this funny and savage play about creativity, domestication and the elusive demands of the Primal Female.
Two pregnant sisters – one visual artist, one con artist – converge on a remote family cabin in Vermont. Jess, the visual artist, races to finish her long-awaited solo show; Rory, the con artist, sees a new audience for her latest scam. When Rory hatches a plan for an art project of her own, the problems between the sisters flare into a collision of family baggage, personal morality and artistic taste. A genderswapped riff on Sam Shepard’s True West, a surreal psychodrama about brothers with problems, Problems Between Sisters is a funny and savage take on domestication, creativity and the elusive demands of the Primal Female.
Problems Between Sisters is part of Jonas’ All Long True American Stories, a cycle of five “response plays” that reimagine canonical 20th-century male-experience plays as they’d be lived by other people, mostly women.
A remote family cabin in Vermont. Present Day.
“Provocative and explosive.” – BroadwayWorld
“Jonas understands what strangers siblings divided by a decade in age can grow up to become, how their different experiences of family and parenting can become distancing, even alienating forces. And yet shared roots, shared blood, and yes, shared heritable traits and traumas are powerful bonds... Shepard’s original and Jonas’ potently feminine/feminist remix derive substantial punch from that eternally complicated truth.” – Washington Post
“Cortisol-spiking chaos... The sneaky brilliance of Problems Between Sisters is that it doesn’t simply ask, ‘What if the brothers were sisters?’ but rather the more complex question: ‘What if the sisters gave themselves permission to act as men do?’ More precisely, what if women ceded control to their inner art monsters?” – New York Times
“Much like an erupting volcano though, when these siblings fight, you just can’t look away.” – Maryland Theatre Guide
“Visceral and joltingly immersive.. Thank the playwriting skill of Ms. Jonas for the alternately sassy, volcanic humor that is combined with the caustic humor and dry wit that runs like a thread in the siblings’ interactions.” – BroadwayWorld
“Buckle up. That is both a provocation, and a promise. Jonas’ play lives up to it, a drama that feminizes the deeply masculine bravura at the center of True West, then complicates it.” – Washington City Paper
Julia May Jonas is a writer and founder of the theatre company Nellie Tinder. Recent plays include A Woman Among Women (the Bushwick Starr), Your Own Personal Exegesis (LCT3) and Problems Between Sisters (Studio Theatre, Washington, DC). Problems Between Sisters and A Woman A ...
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