Four sisters, the daughters of the last Tsar of Russia, are taken prisoner as the Russian Revolution tears through the country in 1917. Through the chaos and dangers of global war, internal collapse, and political insurrection, they draw on their exceptional reserves of strength and compassion to remain united as sisters and as Russians.
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
