FOUR SISTERS, a play by Susanna Fournier

Listen to all 3 episodes of Four Sisters on soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/foursisterspodcast Four Sisters is the final installment of The Empire trilogy, a collection of stories that weave together 500 years of abstracted history through live performance, graphic novels, and podcasts. In our last story, The Scavenger’s Daughter, which took place 259 years ago, we left The Empire cannibalizing its ruins and re-enter it now as its ‘democratic’ rule attempts to cure its social plagues: biological, economic, and narcotic. Four Sisters is written by Susanna Fournier Music and editing by Ben McCarthy Performed by Bea Pizano, Chala Hunter, Aria Evans, Alison Wong, Krystina Bojanowski, and Susanna Fournier. Produced by PARADIGM productions and recorded at SKETCH Working Arts. Video Trailer by Ben McCarthy & Steph Raposo Podcast art work by Saira Sabri Empire logos by Christo Graham To enter The Empire expanded universe go to www.empiretrilogy.com

Toronto, CANAD

Susanna Fournier is a theatrical force of NATURE. Her work is powerful, thought provoking, and fearless. Her newest work, always still the dawn, was commissioned by Canadian Stage, and set to premiere this Spring, until it was cancelled. I can’t wait to see it, but in the meantime, we have this for our listening pleasure!

Trailer & podcast submitted by Dora-Award winning sound designer, Ben McCarthy, who scored and edited this beautiful piece!

From the submission: FOUR SISTERS is a podcast written by Susanna Fournier, a sonic rendering of play that showed last year at the Theatre Centre as part of the Luminato Festival. It's a timely piece, and one just released, by an ascendant feminist voice in Toronto's independent theatre community. The play explores how gender and class impact a marginalized family in a time of plague and political crisis-- this feels particularly appropriate for this moment where precarious workers, artists, caregivers and service workers, will be the hardest hit by social distancing.

Performed by Bea Pizano, Chala Hunter, Aria Evans, Alison Wong, Krystina Bojanowski, and Susanna Fournier.

Produced by PARADIGM productions and recorded at SKETCH Working Arts.

FOUR SISTERS is one of three plays in Fournier’s Empire Trilogy, all available to listen to at empiretrilogy.com!