This all-woman production is set in provincial France in the early 1930’s. Two young, country sisters enter domestic service in the bourgeois household of a penurious widow and her homely daughter. Neither pair speaks to the other: two sets of women separated and confined by social convention, personality, and the house itself. The relationship of the sisters slowly evolves into obsession, brought about by isolation and by emotions left from childhood. Trapped in a garret room, the sisters’ violent downstairs-upstairs collision with Madame Danzard and the lumpy Isabelle seems certain.
Release Date: 14 July 1995Runtime:
Stars:
- Aimee Schmidt
- Amelda Brown
- Gabriella Schmidt
- Jodhi May
- Joely Richardson
- Julie Walters
- Kate Gartside
- Lucita Pope
- Sophie Thursfield
Director: Nancy Meckler
