"The task is stirring a pot...all day, every day. The sisters don’t share it as they once did. With Nannette busy racing stock cars and Roxette off doing her own thing, the others are left to shoulder the burden. But Paulette is fed up; Collette is clueless; and Babette, crippled in more ways than one, is volatile. Juliette does her best to maintain order and civility…for now. But why are they doing this? Do they even remember? When Roxette calls everyone together to meet her new girlfriend, old venom bubbles up, grievance flares, and the imagined future blows up in ...Read More
"The task is stirring a pot...all day, every day. The sisters don’t share it as they once did. With Nannette busy racing stock cars and Roxette off doing her own thing, the others are left to shoulder the burden. But Paulette is fed up; Collette is clueless; and Babette, crippled in more ways than one, is volatile. Juliette does her best to maintain order and civility…for now. But why are they doing this? Do they even remember? When Roxette calls everyone together to meet her new girlfriend, old venom bubbles up, grievance flares, and the imagined future blows up in their faces. A play about rituals, gatherings, and the dark art of obligation."
That description comes courtesy of playwright SCOTT T. BARSOTTI, whose comedy-drama BREWED--concerning an impacted family of sisters charged with a mysterious, exhausting task--concerns faith and fate, whether to fight it or succumb to it. Four Humours artistic director MICHAEL MARTIN is thrilled to launch his troupe's second season exactly as it ought to be launched... with an unusual, wonderful new work focused on unusual, wonderful women. "Almost all of the best performances in our first season were by the actresses," says Martin. "Why fight fate?"
BREWED is the kind of show Martin hopes Four Humours becomes known for in New Orleans: challenging without being opaque; unusual in theme and structure without being self-indulgent. And funny. Darkly, disturbingly funny.
Oh! And gynocentric.
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