The original cast of Sins of the Mother

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New for 2015-16

Selected for the New York Fringe Festival August 2016

Two women in a relation over the first half of the last century are faced with a final decision that will determine the meaning of their life together. A play for three women. 

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When Lilacs Last
2010 New York Fringe version

Sins of the Mother
(photo from the Urdu version in India)

Sins of the Mother, Montreal Fringe Festival

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