Scripts in Play: Three Sisters
Written by Suneeta Misra, Directed by Mekala Sridhar

Friday, October 9 at 7:30 pm – Ballston Quarter
Sunday, October 11 at 2:00 pm – Ballston Quarter

Following the death of Brigadier Sen, his family finds itself trapped in a conservative small town in 1970s India, where misogyny and patriarchy rule and women are expected to gain respectability and status through marriage. Inspired by Chekhov’s play of the same name and Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice, Three Sisters offers a satirical look at the snobbery and misguided values of the Sen family.

The story centers on a mother and her three daughters, who were unwillingly transplanted from Calcutta to a small northern Indian town. As bitterness and petty recriminations simmer among the sisters, nostalgia prevents the family from embracing the present or moving forward. Beneath their conflict, the play reflects India’s evolution from a colonial to a postcolonial society.