Four Sisters

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Four Sisters

By James Clements

Photography by Pablo Calderón-Santiago

Four Sisters is a research-based play that examines the lives and deaths of the four daughters of the last Tsar of Russia in the aftermath of the 1917 Revolution.

Comprised of excerpts from personal writings of the four Grand Duchesses, select lines from Anton Chekov's "Three Sisters," Biblical passages and imagined language, the play examines the role of women in wartime, the collective consumption of public female figures and the destruction of domestic histories.

PRODUCTION HISTORY

March 2018 - Staged Reading Curated as part of the Scratch Night Series at Theatre for the New City - NEW YORK

Director James Clements
Featuring Rosie DeSantis, Lucy Livingston, Melannie Vázquez-Lara, Alex Smith, Lindsay Wolff
Musicians Frances-Ann Barker, Blair Cheng, Ana Marcu

Sets/Props Lauren Barber
Costumes Johanna Pan
Lighting Elizabeth M. Stewart
Stage Manager Sam Hood Adrain

March 2017 - Workshop Production at the American Theatre of Actors - NEW YORK

Director James Clements
Featuring Lucy Livingston, Tayi Sanusi, Melannie Vázquez-Lara, Lindsay Wolff

Sets/Props Lauren Barber
Costumes Johanna Pan
Lighting Elizabeth M. Stewart
Stage Manager Sam Hood Adrain
Artistic Associate Malena Pennycook

December 2016 - Reading at the Sheen Centre - NEW YORK

Director James Clements
Featuring Ana Cristina Da Silva, Sam Hood Adrain, Lucy Livingston, Tayi Sanusi, Melannie Vázquez-Lara

SELECTED PRESS & AWARDS

Received a 2016 Development Grant from Donn Russell of the Peg Sandvoort Foundation

James Clements' FOUR SISTERS is Re-Imagined At Theatre For The New City - BROADWAYWORLD