Problems between sisters
by Julia May Jonas
World Premiere, Studio Theatre, May 8 - June 16, 2024
Photos by Margot Schulman
Two pregnant sisters—one visual artist, one con artist—converge on a remote family cabin in Vermont. Jess races to finish her long-awaited solo show; Rory 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 response to True West, Sam Shepard’s 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.
This world premiere is a part of Julia May Jonas’s five-play ALTAS cycle (“All Long True American Stories”), in which she reimagines canonical 20th-century American male-experience plays as they’d be experienced by other people, mostly women.
CAST: Stephanie Janssen, Annie Fox, Maya Jackson, Nancy Robinette
UNDERSTUDY COMPANY: Brenna Horner, Rebecca Ballinger, Melanie A. Lawrence, Alison Bauer
SET DESIGNER: Emmie Finckel
COSTUME DESIGNER: Helen Q. Huang
LIGHTING DESIGNER: Colin K. Bills
CO-SOUND DESIGNER: Daniela Hart
CO-SOUND DESIGNER: Noel Nichols
CO-SOUND DESIGNER: Bailey Trierweiler
PROPS DESIGNER: Luke Hartwood
PROJECTION DESIGN: Zavier Augustus Lee Taylor
FIGHT AND MOVEMENT COORDINATOR: Ashleigh King
DRAMATURG: Adrien-Alice Hansel
PRODUCTION STAGE MANAGER: Joey Blakely
CASTING DIRECTOR: Claire Yenson