FOUR SISTERS, a play by Susanna Fournier
Toronto, CANAD
Susanna Fournier is a theatrical force of NATURE. Her work is powerful, thought provoking, and fearless. Her newest work, always still the dawn, was commissioned by Canadian Stage, and set to premiere this Spring, until it was cancelled. I can’t wait to see it, but in the meantime, we have this for our listening pleasure!
Trailer & podcast submitted by Dora-Award winning sound designer, Ben McCarthy, who scored and edited this beautiful piece!
From the submission: FOUR SISTERS is a podcast written by Susanna Fournier, a sonic rendering of play that showed last year at the Theatre Centre as part of the Luminato Festival. It's a timely piece, and one just released, by an ascendant feminist voice in Toronto's independent theatre community. The play explores how gender and class impact a marginalized family in a time of plague and political crisis-- this feels particularly appropriate for this moment where precarious workers, artists, caregivers and service workers, will be the hardest hit by social distancing.
Performed by Bea Pizano, Chala Hunter, Aria Evans, Alison Wong, Krystina Bojanowski, and Susanna Fournier.
Produced by PARADIGM productions and recorded at SKETCH Working Arts.
FOUR SISTERS is one of three plays in Fournier’s Empire Trilogy, all available to listen to at empiretrilogy.com!