That Pretty Pretty; Or, The Rape Play
Sheila Callaghan
That Pretty Pretty; Or, The Rape Play
Sheila Callaghan
Comedy / Characters: 2m, 3f A pair of radical feminist ex-strippers scour the country on a murderous rampage against right-wing pro-lifers, blogging about their exploits in gruesome detail. Meanwhile, a scruffy screenwriter named Owen tries to bang out his magnum opus in a hotel room as his best friend Rodney ( The Rod ) holds forth on rape and other manly enterprises. When Owen decides to incorporate the strippers into his screenplay, the boundaries of reality begin to blur, and only a visit from Jane Fonda can help keep worlds from blowing apart. Sheila Callaghan’s That Pretty Pretty; or, The Rape Play is a violently funny and disturbing excavation of the dirty corners of our imaginations. Mind-blowing images and soul-crushing language flowing wildly. -Back Stage A submersion in the anarchy of ambivalence: variously a rant, a riff, a rumble - about our notions of naturalism, objectification, perversity, and beauty …There’s sass and sarcasm in Callaghan’s high-energy punk writing. -John Lahr, The New Yorker Raunchy, savvy…the twisted, caffeinated world of the show imagines the collective subconscious of a culture where girls never stiop going wild…[Callaghan] push(es) her audience’s buttons with an aggressive treatment of some of the darker corners of the human psyche. -The New York Times
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