Katori Hall's Play THE BLOOD QUILT on Broadway-Quilting Bickering Sisters

THE BLOOD QUILT is an African American family drama that reunites two sisters with their two younger "half-sisters" at the home where they grew-up shortly after the passing of their mother. Their home is a ramshackle cabin, strewn with numerous quilts which lend a cozy, beckoning ambience. Situated on the small Kwemera Island off the coast of Georgia, a ferry is the only means of connecting the Isle to the mainland. We meet the two older sisters when the play opens. Gio tells her sister, Clementine, to vouch for her that she's ill and not able to come into work. Gio is too preoccupied with getting stoned and when pressed over the phone to explain what's wrong, she says she's fighting glaucoma. The tone is set for a family comedy/drama with four dynamic siblings and a precocious niece. in tow because she's been suspended from school for smoking pot. Cassan arrives soon after bringing her 14 year old daughter who is suspended from school for smoking pot.  Zambia is thrilled to be among her aunties, especially Aunt Gio who is happy to share her stash. Last to arrive is the golden child, Amber. Amber is a glamorous, successful "Harvard" attorney whom the sisters both adore and resent for various reasons. Katori Hall is a Pulitzer Prize winning dramatist and twice Tony nominated playwright. Hall brings brusque banter to the women whose love for one another is about to become frayed when tying up the family's tangled financial situations and the reading of what their mother bequeathed to her daughters individually. What weaves the family together is their shared upbringing on the isolated island and their tradition of quilting. Over the next few days the women will cut, stitch and sew fabric into a quilt to honor their mom and their own legacies. The sisters will stew, argue and mend unraveling relationships. Dark secrets and buried resentments will be uncovered. Hall's crafty writing unspools skeins of colorful conversations twanging in unfettered dialect. Hall also brings lyricism to the forefront spinning a historical yarn of their ancestors. The present and past, rough and soft are woven together harmoniously to paint a portrait of a strong but tattered family of women that endure by underpinning heartache and loving each other.