The Other Three Sisters

This is a one-act play, with minimal set, consisting of a cast of 4 female and 1 male roles. It is a comedy set in the late 1700s and the mid-1900s. The scenes in the 1700s are adapted from Jane Austen's epistolary short story, "The Three Sisters." Intertwined scenes of the Stanhope family are juxtaposed between the 1700s of Jane Austen’'s day, and the late 1900s in Queens, NY. The 18th Century Mary must decide if she will wed an oaf she despises to make her neighbors jealous, as the 1900s Mary considers allowing back her missing husband who claims to have been sleeping for the years he was away. While the scenes span generations, the women encounter the same issues of marriage, money, and pride.