←Recommendations of Period Sisters

A terrific tackle of everything young women are dealing with now and it's a wakeup call to women on how we need to step up and support each other. Well done!

Period Sisters humanizes cliché preconceptions about sorority girls. It explores all the nuance of their closed ecological system. While it delves into digestive health, the damaging psychology of beauty, drinking, rape, and the ridiculousness of the legal system, Ms. Viterbi is far from checking the issues off a list. Rather, she tackles each one with vigor and emotional intelligence. The progression of play genuinely feels like a full year passing by. Despite their many mistakes, there’s an air of such careful ministration surrounding the hearts of these young women. Take a peek: it boasts a female cast of 10.

It is the Eugene O'Neill Theater Center's pleasure to recommend Ali Viterbi and their play Period Sisters as a finalist for our 2018 National Playwrights Conference. The play rose through a competitive, anonymous, multileveled selection process that took nearly nine months to execute. As one of 53 finalists out of more than 1,4200 submissions, the strength of its writing has allowed this work to prosper in such a competitive selection process.

Two hips and a hooray for Period Sisters, Ali Viterbi's play! Fabulously theatrical, Viterbi controls this ambitious ensemble piece linguistically and structurally with very tight writing and entertaining thrills including a Bulimia Ballet and a "Dirty Disney" costume party. And then there's ANAGNORISIS - to read this play is to love this play. L-O-V-E!

An empathetic, lyrical, and wholly original take on female friendship and physical autonomy. By pairing the unheard voices of college-age girls with the revered form of Greek tragedy, Ali creates a daring and vital portrait of what it means to be a young woman in America. It was a joy to develop and direct.

At once very real and very... not, this play is original and funny and disturbing in turns. My mind keeps coming back to it, and I would LOVE to see it staged. There's a lot of fun stuff to work with here. Check it out.