'The Hills of California' Tells the Story of English Sisters and the Stage Mother Who Raised Them

The article was originally published on https://sfist.com/2025/11/07/the-hills-of-california-tells-the-story-of-english-sisters-and-the-stage-mother-who-raised-them/As they gather to await the death of their hard-charging, ambitious stage mother, three sisters, and then a fourth, estranged sister, parse through their past in playwright Jez Butterworth's The Hills of California, now playing at Berkeley Rep. We meet the Webb sisters, one by one, in the opening scene of The Hills of California. Now women approaching middle age who have lived very separate lives, they were once a tightnit quartet, pushed by their mother Veronica to be England's answer to the Andrews Sisters. Jillian or Jill (Karen Killeen), dressed dowdily, sneaks a cigarette before the nurse attending to her mother comes down