Four Sisters is the final instalment of The Empire trilogy, a collection of stories that weave together 500 years of abstracted history through live performance, graphic novels, and podcasts. In our last story, The Scavenger’s Daughter, which took place 259 years ago, we left The Empire cannibalizing its ruins and re-enter it now as its ‘democratic’ rule attempts to cure its social plagues: biological, economic, and narcotic. Four Sisters follows Sarah, a woman who has defied death, who is living on the margins and raising a family of girls orphaned by the women she once employed. When a mysterious plague breaks out, a strange doctor arrives and discovers that the girls are plague-positive, Sarah must choose between treating the girls with an experimental new drug or no treatment at all.

Written by Susanna Fournier.

Music and editing by Ben McCarthy.

Performed by Bea Pizano, Chala Hunter, Aria Evans, Alison Wong, Krystina Bojanowski, and Susanna Fournier.

Produced by PARADIGM productions and recorded at SKETCH Working Arts.

Podcast art work by Saira Sabri with Empire logos by Christo Graham.

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