SLOT 8: Sister Cities

SUDS presents Sister Cities by Collette Freedman

Artistic, self indulgent matriarch Mary has married four different men and named her daughters after the location of their births - Carolina, Austin, Dallas and Baltimore. Mary focused her attentions on her men, spawning deep sibling rivalries now manifested in her bickering adult daughters. When Mary allegedly kills herself, her four daughters return home and put the pieces of their fractured lives together.

Sister Cities is a dark comedy, a story about family, death, love, sickness, relationships and womanhood. It is a look, across the span of one day, into the sisters' lives, into the beautiful, ugly and frustrating nature of familial relationships.

Runtime: 1 hour 45 minutes, including a 10 minute interval

Directed by Ruby Scott-Wishart & Avigal Holstein

Produced by Josie Carroll

Content warnings:

Mild fatphobia, mild sexual references, references to abortion. Extensive discussions of suicide, assisted suicide and death.

Cast

Holly Horsfall  | Austin

Ines Sicard-Lemaistre  | Carolina

Charlotte Savva  |  Dallas

Amelia Glastonbury  | Baltimore

Isabelle Le Map  | Mary

Creatives

Set Designer | Sophie Wishart

Assistant Set Designer  | Jessica Crawley

Props Master  |  Sabine O’Leary

Stage Hand  |  Ananya Agarwal

Costume Design  |  Vivien Van Luyt

Hair & Makeup  |  Kareena Thakoor

Sound Design | Coll Burns

Lighting Design  | Kaia Krause

Lighting Operation & Photography | Amelia Elliot

Videography  | Wendy Lew

Graphics  | Dan Fonn Prichard

Sister Cities and SUDS acknowledges the traditional custodians of the Land, the Gadigal people of the Eora nation. As a society that exists to tell stories, it is important to acknowledge that stories were being told on this land for thousands of years before colonisation. SUDS pays respect to elders past, present and emerging. Always was, always will be Aboriginal land.