Sirens
According to Wikipedia, most noble of sources, The Sirens were dangerous and beautiful creatures, the original femme fatales, who lured nearby sailors with their enchanting music and voices to shipwreck on the rocky coast of their island. Basically, they were the girls your mother warned you about.
In The Sisters Sirene, by Amelia Bethel and Christine Keating, the Sirens have found themselves in 1930s Georgia, after a long lifetime of seduction and destruction. As they construct a tale of woe to lure in their next prey, they question their lots in life, and how they can continue to function as a group. Through the eyes of our narrator, a recent victim unable to move on to the next world until he destroys the women who took his life, we see their vicious, supernatural side; but according to the girls themselves, they’re just like everyone else, trying to survive and keep a family together. These mythical monsters exist as a group like the sisters of Pride and Prejudice, Little Women, or The Virgin Suicides—with a horror movie twist.
SIRENS or The Sisters Sirene by Amelia Bethel and Christine Keating
Directed by Libby Vega
staged reading on Wednesday, November 19, 2014
Erika Bakse (Ramona)
Molly Benson (Thelma)
Lorenz Angelo Gonzales (Jed)
Claire Karoly (Lilah)
Gabriel Kenney (Beau)
Katrina Kroetch (Penny)
Adam Magill (Jack)
Karl Schackne (Stage Directions)
Jacinta Sutphin (Agatha)
Aaron Tworek (Charles)
Susannah Wood (Betty)
Christine Keating is a writer/director living in San Francisco. Select directing credits include Little Shop of Horrors, Can’t Thread a Moving Needle, War Brides, and The Vagina Monologues. Recently, Christine assistant directed the Bay Area premieres of David Linsday-Abaire’s Good People at Marin Theatre Company, and Lauren Gunderson’s Silent Sky at TheatreWorks. She also served as the Literary Intern at Magic Theatre in the 2012-2013 season. As a writer, she wrote and directed a site specific staged reading based on Sam Shepard’s work, day out of days, at Magic Theatre, and her one act A Girl in Pink received a staged reading at Santa Clara University. You can look at her face and read some things that came out of her brain at www.KeatingMarie.com
Amelia Bethel is playwright and actor, working in the Bay Area and Sacramento. In the Bay, she has performed with Berkeley Rep PlayGround, Magic Theatre, Vallejo Shakespeare, Cardboard Box Theatre Project, SF Playwrights’ Foundation, Notre Dame de Namur, the San Francisco Fringe Festival, and the Utopia Theatre Project, of which she is a founding member. In Sacramento, she has performed with Sacramento Theatre Company, Sacramento Philharmonic, Green Valley Theatre Company, and Resurrection Theatre. Her play Through the Fence was selected for production at the Notre Dame de Namur Labor Day Theatre Fest, and she recently wrote a piece for the San Francisco One-Minute Play Festival. Amelia enjoys writing about people who are searching for something, loss, loneliness, and discovery.
The image of the Sirens was created by Brett Grunig! You can see more of his work here!