이 집에 사는 내 언니

by Wendy Kesselman, 이지훈 (Translator)

지식을만드는지식 희곡선집. 1933년 2월 2일 프랑스 남부 소도시 르망에서 상주 하녀들에 의한 주인집 모녀 살해 사건이 발생한다. 시신은 잔혹하게 훼손되어 있었다. 이 사건은 프랑스 지성계에 엄청난 반향을 불러일으킨다. 미국인 여성 작가 웬디 케슬먼은 특히 여성주의 관점에서 사건을 재해석한 희곡으로 수전 스미스 블랙번 상을 수상한다.

Genres: Plays, Drama, Read For School, Retellings, Fiction, School

158 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1981

Reviews

[Reza · Rating 2 out of 5]

Ah this one was such a bore. Only read because it was mentioned in a paper about Susan Glaspell's Trifles.
Anyway the premise was good but the execution was handled in such an amateur way that it just ruined it. Especially the scene where they are playing cards felt like a million years to go through.

[dora · Rating 3 out of 5]

I've read this about 20 times now to study for finals, I'm about to pull a Christine and gouge my eyes out.

[Can · Rating 4 out of 5]

fıt fıt fıt mamannn fıt fıt fıt mamann fıt fıt fıt mamann

[Alya]

Read it for a class

[Melissa Helton · Rating 2 out of 5]

This play takes place in France (1700s? 1800s?). There are two sisters who are servants in a rich house. Things eventually sour between the girls and the rich family. Full disclosure: I don't read many plays. This one was building a slow and realistic tension, to the point I was very nervous and engaged in the drama. But the end was abrupt, rushed and didn't feel aligned with the characters. It felt almost a disingenuous end.

[busé · Rating 4 out of 5]

sweet home alabama

[Keith · Rating 3 out of 5]

This is an eerie play about two sisters, neglected their entire lives, who work as maids for a fastidious, bigoted woman. The pressure and isolation increases in the household as the years pass leading to a bloody end.

The descent to madness, however, is presented gradually and subtlety, signaled by changes in clothes, in small acts, and in a couple words. The explosion comes suddenly and brutally. Reading it, it felt a little out of place and out of character, but I think on stage, in a small theater, the closeness and sense of entrapment would be stronger. I don’t know if you can expect an ending like that, but you can understand it.

It is interesting that the only scene outside the house is the photographer’s shop where Christine and Lea get their picture taken.

This is not quite my kind of play, but it is an intriguing and eerie work. It's very well done.

[Grace · Rating 4 out of 5]

I love the parallels between the working sisters and the mother-daughter living in the house. For some reason, I had a feeling someone might die somehow of illness because of the cold maybe. But, I was not expecting the ending at all! Maybe it’s supposed to be somewhat of a shock factor, but I feel that it could’ve been alluded to more throughout the play other than a simple annoyance with each other.

[Mostly Sapphic Books · Rating 4 out of 5]

This screenplay is the basis of one of my favorite films, Sister My Sister, which I've seen several times and adore. I do think watching the movie first helped color my sense of the plot and characters a bit better than I would have understood it if I'd read the script first, but it's a great story, and I had a fun time envisioning it as a play.

[Aynur · Rating 5 out of 5]

A beautiful rewriting of a real event that took place in France, telling the story of two marginalized characters in a patriarchal, class-conscious society and explaining what drove them to do what they did.

[Amy Young · Rating 4 out of 5]

Okay whoa, that was crazy - loved the tension, loved how tense and questioning it was, love that the audience doesn't know everything. Like, UNCOMFY, but in a very cookie way. The tension thats built is quite subtle, and it says a lot of things about female friendship and dependency.

[Kat (sorceryofwords) · Rating 2 out of 5]

I almost dnf’ed it after reading like 90% of the book, and then I was like ykw, I might as well go on and end my misery 😂😂

[merv · Rating 5 out of 5]

pulled me down a whole rabbit hole abt shared psychosis

[Maya · Rating 3 out of 5]

still not a novel

[Zeynep Naz · Rating 2 out of 5]

Ölmedim

[Yağmur]

Salak mısın cemile

[Oneta]

Have not read the play. But I saw the movie and it was wickedly good.