Problems Between Sisters
by Julia May Jonas

Two pregnant sisters – one visual artist, one con artist – converge on a remote family cabin in Vermont.

Jess, the visual artist, races to finish her long-awaited solo show; Rory, the con artist, sees a new audience for her latest scam.

When Rory hatches a plan for an art project of her own, the problems between the sisters flare into a collision of family baggage, personal morality and artistic taste.

A genderswapped riff on Sam Shepard’s T rue West , a surreal psychodrama about brothers with problems, Problems Between Sisters is a funny and savage take on domestication, creativity and the elusive demands of the Primal Female.

Problems Between Sisters is part of Jonas’ All Long True American Stories, a cycle of five “response plays” that reimagine canonical 20th-century male-experience plays as they’d be lived by other people, mostly women.