Sister at La MaMa's First Floor Theatre

La MaMa E.T.C. presents Sister, by Mario Fratti, at La MaMa's First Floor Theatre from the 18 May - 04 Jun 2006.

Sister: Depicts the strains of an Italian family in which a teenage son, wise beyond his years, lives uneasily with his 59 year-old mother and his thirty-something sister. The boy is blessed with a professorial vocabulary and cursed with a judgmental mind. He resents his sister's desperate relationships with men, accuses her of promiscuity and responds self-righteously to his mother's queries about his own relations with women.

The play starts off like an indictment of male machismo and double-standards. But then shocking, mysterious secrets are revealed.

The cast for Sister, directed by Pamela Billig, features Eleanor Ruth (Mother), Brian Voelcker (Son) and Shân Willis (Daughter).