A Finalist for The Source Festival and a Semi-finalist for The Bay Area Playwrights Foundation, SISTERS THREE lands its World Premiere staging with Inkwell Theater producing in Los Angeles at the VS. Theatre.
An off-center dramedy about family, social media, fame, and the holidays, Sisters Three pays homage to the Brontë sisters, and their brother Patrick. After a family tragedy, Charlotte has dropped out of society and joined a no-technology commune on Gondol Island. EJ and Anne are building a canoe to rescue her. As individual secrets and desires are becoming more apparent, it is threatening to tear the sisters apart.
“I am committed to giving voice to female protagonists, so I always start with female leads…or rather, the female leads start with me,” says writer Jami Brandli. “This play was inspired by the Bronte sisters, all novelists and poets. Though it’s not a biography, the fascinating sibling dynamic includes their brother Patrick, who was a painter, in a modern retelling of a complicated family of artists and big thinkers now living in a society that seems to place more value on the veneer of a perfect Instagram post rather than appreciating the beautiful complexities of reality.”
Jami Brandli’s plays include Bliss (or Emily Post is Dead!), a Critic’s Choice – LA Times, currently at Moving Arts, Technicolor Life, S.O.E., M-Theory, ¡SOLDADERA, Through the Eye of a Needle (“Top Ten” – Stage Raw; The Road Theatre), Medusa’s Song, O: A Rhapsody in Divorce. Her work has been produced/developed at New Dramatists, WordBRIDGE, The Lark, New York Theatre Workshop, Great Plains Theatre Conference, Launch Pad, The Antaeus Company, Chalk REP, The Road, and is Winner of John Gassner Memorial Playwriting Award, Holland New Voices Award and Aurora Theatre Company’s GAP Prize. Technicolor Life premiered at REP Stage as part of the 2015 Women’s Voices Theater Festival and recently received its Australian premiere at The Depot Theatre. Jami was a Finalist for the 2016 PEN Literary Award for Drama, Playwrights’ Center Core Writer Fellowship, Princess Grace Award, O’Neill National Playwrights Conference and the Disney ABC TV Fellowship and was nominated for the Susan Smith Blackburn Award. Her short works are published with TCG and Smith & Kraus.
Directed by Annie McVey, the cast includes Robyn Cohen as Charlotte (The Exonerated opposite Jeff Goldblum, West Coast premiere of Neil Labute’s The Shape of Things/The Laguna Playhouse, No Way Around but Through/The Falcon Theatre starring Melanie Griffith, Rigoletto/The Dorothy Chandler Pavilion), Dana DeRuyck as EJ (Hole in the Sky with Circle X Theatre, member Sacred Fools where she played Prushka in the LA premiere of A Gulag Mouse; and appeared in Mr. Burns a Post-Electric Play and The Magic Bullet Theory), and Kara Hume as Anne (member of the Road Theatre, she appeared in Jami Brandi’s Through the Eye of a Needle, and The Other Place by Sharr White). Produced by Artistic Director, Daniel Shoenman and by Rosie Glen-Lambert.
Sisters Three opens on Friday, December 14th and runs at through January 20, 2019. 8pm Fridays and Saturdays and 2pm Sundays (added performances at 8pm on Thursdays 12/20 & 12/27 and Mondays 1/7 & 1/14). VS Theatre is located at 5453 W. Pico Blvd. in Los Angeles, 90010. Tickets are $15-$35. For reservations: https://inkwelltheater.com
