“The Drowning Girls”
“The Drowning Girls” — a ghost story about three young women murdered by the same man — opens Indiana State University’s fall theater season. In the early years of the 20th century, the three were considered — and consider themselves — to be of little account until they are lured into marriage by their murderer making them, as one of the trios says, “a useful member of society.” Grim and unsettlingly funny, “The Drowning Girls” recalls an era when women were dependent on men for everything, from money to their very existence in society.