The Violet Sisters by Gina Femia, a play reading

The Violet Sisters by Gina Femia

featuring Charlette Augusta, Camilla Bastos, and Kaitlyn Crockett

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A staged reading of Gina Femia’s contemporary play The Violet Sisters - a story of navigating familial bonds, domestic abuse survivorship, and resilience in the wake of tragedy.

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Play Description

In the wake of Hurricane Sandy, Pam comes home to Brooklyn to attend her father’s funeral. When she arrives, she is greeted by an angry sister, a dilapidated house, and a past she can’t escape. Despite all of her best intentions, the conversation quickly turns tense and the two sisters are forced to deal with all that they have let slip away, all the words that have been left unsaid for years. A two-person play with Gina’s trademark comedic-dramatic expertise that portrays real life nuances of complicated relationships, The Violet Sisters is a play about forgiving when you cannot bring yourself to forget.

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Content Transparency

This play contains conversations around abuse, abusive relationships, grief, the death of a parent. In addition, there is a moment of self harm described within the stage directions - this section will be read aloud but not depicted.

The Violet Sisters explores abuse and abusive relationships. If you or anyone you know is struggling with a toxic relationship, please call the National Domestic Violence Hotline at 1-800-799-7233.

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Performances

March 21 at 7pm

March 22 at 4pm

at Bagshaw Mills Studio (132 Warren St, Lowell, MA 01852)

We are also performing at The Rockwell in Somerville, MA on March 30 at 2pm. Tickets to this performance.

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Website

For all details, visit us at linktr.ee/violetsistersma.

Artists

Gina Femia (Playwright) (they/them) is an award-winning playwright and performer whose work has been seen/developed at The Goodman Theater, MCC Theater, Playwrights Horizons, EST, Page 73, New Georges, The Playwrights Center, CTG, Theater of NOTE, Rivendell Theater, Cape Cod Theater Project, Bag&Baggage, Mirrorbox Theater, among others. Selected honors include The Kilroys List, Leah Ryan Prize, Doric Wilson Award, the Otis Guernsey New Voices Award and the Neukom Award in Playwriting, nominations for Drama League and NYIT. Gina is a former Core Writer with the Playwrights Center, and an Alum of EST Youngblood, Page73's Interstate 73, Pipeline Theatre’s PlayLab, New Georges' Audrey Residency, the Ingram New Play Lab at Nashville Rep and Parsnip Ship's Radio Roots Writer's Group. Gina’s a New Georges Affiliated Artist and has received residencies with Page73, Powerhouse, NTI at the O’Neill, SPACE on Ryder Farm, and Fresh Ground Pepper. As a teacher, Gina has worked with The Playwrights Center, Primary Stages ESPA, and TDF in addition to running independent classes that focus on writing your first novel as well as writing autobiographical stories for the stage. Gina's debut YA novel, Alondra was named a Best Book for Teens in 2023 and is a Finalist for a Golden Kite award. Learn more: www.femiagina.com.

Charlette Augusta (Stage Directions) (any pronouns) is an actor, stage manager, producer, and performance artist. Most recently Charlette has worked on productions with Studio 506 Theater, Brooklyn Grange, Columbia University, Central Casting, and Erik Orjiako. If you are experiencing emotional or physical abuse in an intimate relationship, call 1.800.799.7233 or text BEGIN to 88788. To those contemplating suicide or self harm, call 988 or text HOME to 741741.

Camilla Bastos (Pam) (she/her) is an actor, model, and vlogger based in Boston. Film: Alexis in Blueberries (Boston University), Rosalba in 1988 (Made in Mass Productions), Moly in Wave (MassArt), Jamie in When I Go Missing (From Another Planet Productions), Sex Worker in Absolution (Sculptor Media). Theater: Isabel in Refugee - workshop (Merrimack Rep), Madeline in The Women of Lockerbie (MCC), Actor 3 in Revolt. She said. Revolt again. (Studio 506 Theater), Elizabeth in The Lowell Offering - workshop (Merrimack Rep). Webseries: Dee in Love Undone (JG Productions). Commercial: Keurig, Clynk, Fanatics, Fallon Health, Mowi Salmon, Suburban HVAC. @camillacvbastos

Kaitlyn Crockett (Sam/Director) (she/they) is an actor, director, writer, and theatre artist. Acting in Theatre: The Trojan Women (dir. Nora Gair); Circle Mirror Transformation (Balefire Productions), Everybody (Studio 506 Theater); Film: Dinner Crawlers (BUTV), The Art Lesson (dir. Rudolf Lingens), Drive (Fitchburg State University); Webseries: The Lowell Life (Ima9ine). Directing in Theatre: Macbeth, Revolt. She said. Revolt again. (Studio 506 Theater), A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Midsummer Dream Festival). Playwriting: An Electric Sunrise on the Horizon - one act version (Capital Stage) (Marymount Manhattan College) (UMich-Flint), Open Mic (Studio 506 Theater), How The Ocean Shimmers (published in The Lowell Eclipse). @createlyn

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