Sisters on the Ground

Overview

Massachussets, 1825.

Martha was buried by all six of her sisters, including me. That spring, we started sleeping outdoors. We didn’t go back inside. What with Papa. Harriet got cholera. Beth got Married. Hannah began bundling. Abigail got drunk. Lying on the dirt, facing the sky, we started saying sentences to each other.

Authors

Max Posner

Max Posner's plays include The Thing About Air Travel, The Famished, Gun Logistics and SNORE (and other sorts of breathing). His plays have been staged and developed at Actors Theatre of Louisville, Page 73, Williamstown Theatre Festival, Clubbed Thumb, Soho Rep, The Hangar T ...

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