What Will The Neighbors Say? Presents FOUR SISTERS as Inaugural New York Production

 

What Will the Neighbors Say? is excited to announce its upcoming production of Four Sisters, a new play by Co-Artistic Director James Clements. The play examines the lives and deaths of the four daughters of the last Tsar of Russia in the aftermath of the 1917 Revolution. Four Sisters will begin with a preview performance on Tuesday March 21st before opening on Wednesday March 22nd at the Beckman Theatre at the American Theatre for Actors, 314 W 54th St.

With Four Sisters, Clements continues developing his voice as a writer of politically charged and historically based plays, including Dogs of DC (Manhattan Repertory Theatre) and The Diana Tapes (2016 EdFringe). The play, comprised of personal writings of the four Grand Duchesses, select line's from Anton Chekov's Three Sisters, Biblical passages, and imagined language, examines the role of women in wartime, the performative properties of female bodies, and the destruction of domestic histories. Each sister is played by an actor of a different race, to further demonstrate the globalized and timeless nature of these women's story.

PREVIEW Tuesday March 21st at 8pm

PERFORMANCES March 22nd-March 25th at 8pm March 25th and 26th at 3pm

DURATION 1hr 45mins

For tickets please visit: https://www.artful.ly/store/events/11345

Produced by What Will The Neighbors Say? co-founders Clements, Sam Hood Adrain, Jorge Morales- Pico and Ana Cristina Schuler, the piece features Tayi Sanusi as Olga, Lindsay Wolff as Tatiana, Melannie Vasquez as Marie, and Lucy Livingston as Anastasia. Morales-Pico will design sound, including original music, alongside frequent WWTNS? collaborators Elizabeth Stewart designing lights, Lauren Barber set and props, and Johanna Pan costumes and make-up. This piece has been developed with the generous support of Donn Russell, co-founder of the Peg Santvoord Foundation.

What Will the Neighbors Say? is a new theatre company based in New York City with a global perspective. WWTNS? creates theatre that examines historical, social, political and economic narratives that have been disregarded, misrepresented, or otherwise untold in order to provoke discourse in our audience and community. WWTNS? maintains a consistent commitment to diversity, arts education, community outreach, and artistic experimentation.

Provoking questions through untold stories.

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