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Ugly Sisters

"I'm here with you too, Germaine – lying awake at night and wondering where that last century went."

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Description

  • Full Length Play
  • Drama, Satire/Political Satire
  • 60 minutes

  • Time Period: 1990s, Contemporary
  • Target Audience: Adult

  • Performance Group:
  • College Theatre / Student, Blackbox / Second Stage /Fringe Groups

  • Accolades:
  • Winner! Untapped Award (2024)
On the day The Female Eunuch is issued in America, a transgender woman in flapping draperies rushes up to Germaine Greer and says, “Thank you… thank you so much for all you’ve done for us girls”

Ugly Sisters is an operatic, heretic, parasitic and hallucinatory retelling of this very moment, of sisterhood, of all feminist history.
REVIEWS:

"A groundbreaking exploration of womanhood."

 Broadway World

"It feels almost trivial to add that Ugly Sisters has a resonance beyond Greer and Trans-Exclusion: but it depicts the trauma of admiring a hero who then betrays through vicious immorality."

 Fest Magazine

"It is exhilarating, scintillating."

 The Scotsman

"Raw and riotous."

 The Stage

Premiere Production: Ugly Sisters was first produced by piss / CARNATION at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival in August 2024.

Characters

  • Casting: 2F
  • Casting Attributes: Role(s) for Trans Actor(s)

  • GERMAINE GREER – F, multiple ages, played by a trans woman.
    FLAPPING DRAPERIES – F, multiple ages, played by a trans woman.
    STAGE MANAGER – Should be the production’s actual stage manager.

  • Other figures appear throughout the course of the play to be played by the two performers, such as the MC and the BACKUP DANCER. These are not characters as such, but figures of fantasy, forces of stagecraft, or human props in the scene.

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    On the day The Female Eunuch is issued in America, a transgender woman in flapping draperies rushes up to Germaine Greer and says, “Thank you… thank you so much for all you’ve done for us girls”

    Ugly Sisters is an operatic, heretic, parasitic and hallucinatory retelling of this very moment, of sisterhood, of all feminist history.

    		$24.95

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