Hi everyone--Check out the amazing poster design for Sister Cities designed by local Lawrence graphic designer, Jill Riley at RED Design.
The concept of Barbies in a house came to me from the girls coming back to their childhood home. In the play, four sister return home after extended absences upon the suicide of their mother. The play flows much like a reality TV show, highlighting each character's relationship to the death. The character Baltimore finds old games and dolls (specifically her old "Ken" doll) and begins to remember the fun times of her childhood. I came up with the idea to use Barbies to represent Mary's "dolls"--her daughters, all four of them, are souvenirs of her past relationship with different men, each of girls' fathers.
Each daughter, Austin, Carolina, Dallas and Baltimore, is named after the city in which they were born --each sister with a different father. Mary plays with her relationships with her daughters the same way that young girls play with the relationships they create between their dolls. The lines between the real and the imaginary are skewed. When Mary dies, they have to think on their own and contemplate the meaning of their lives without their mother's interventions and their roles as sisters.
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