good friday

The ricochet of bullets breaks the hush of academia’s ivory halls and four students and a teacher are trapped in a classroom. Attempts to remain calm are shattered by each new wave of terror and tension coils to the point of asphyxia. good friday tackles millennnial feminism and the intersection of gun violence and sexual violence.
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good friday

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  • Jan Rosenberg:
    12 Jun. 2021
    I don't think I breathed while reading this. This is brutal and unflinching. Makes you question how far we need to be pushed to become violent. Really shook up, especially by that final stage direction.
  • Riley Elton McCarthy:
    9 Feb. 2021
    "good friday" is a violently palpitating and bombastically anxious beating heart, a finger wrapped around the trigger of a loaded gun, and an oftentimes harrowing but honest look into the dichotomy of destructiveness and solidarity of feminism. I was genuinely terrified and gripped by every moment of this play. Quite honestly one of the best plays I have ever seen.
  • Nick Malakhow:
    26 Jun. 2020
    A brilliant, unsettling, and truthful piece that draws powerful and incontrovertible connections between violence and toxic masculinity, complacency/complicity, and what happens to the rage and terror that is the result of such violence. This play is so impeccably structured, drawing you in with the fast-moving, human, and messy post-class conversation, and then completely subverting expectations and shaking up the world with the sudden introduction of physical and aural violence. The characters are vividly-rendered, dynamic, and singularly voiced. This should be a staple in college theater programs, read and unpacked by people of all genders different generations.

Development History

  • Workshop
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    Illinois Wesleyan University
    ,
    2016
  • Reading
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    Chicago Dramatists
    ,
    2015
  • Workshop
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    Stage Left Theater
    ,
    2015

Production History

  • Professional
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    Oracle Productions
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    2016