When four modern-day girls are assigned to read Louisa May Alcott s Little Women, they expect just another school reading. But as they turn the pages, scenes from the classic novel come alive. The girls begin to see themselves in the March sisters and draw connections between the events in the book and their own trials and triumphs.

Through a seamless intertwining of classic literature and contemporary experience, this play explores how timeless stories can illuminate our own. To the student readers, Little Women becomes more than a book. It becomes a lens through which they come to understand their own relationships with friends and family.

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