"Proud Boys' Girls" is about a group of women who are the wives & girlfriends of an organized group of white supremacist men in rural upstate New York. I am always trying to write about whiteness, and I think that the alt-right makes whiteness visible in a really useful way, and that thesewomen—housewives, basically, who see themselves as totally apart from the political world in their...
"Proud Boys' Girls" is about a group of women who are the wives & girlfriends of an organized group of white supremacist men in rural upstate New York. I am always trying to write about whiteness, and I think that the alt-right makes whiteness visible in a really useful way, and that thesewomen—housewives, basically, who see themselves as totally apart from the political world in their domestic sphere—are an extreme of the terror of white complicity and complacency. Also, I think it must be crazy to live under such strict heteropatriarchy, even as a white supremacist woman, and the play is very much about that, too: how we condemn violence (in particular against women) that happens outside, but condone it in our own communities. And of course it’s about people just trying to figure out what they believe, how to love each other, how to make life meaningful.
5 women, 1 man. All the characters are white; actors can be cast as a director sees fit. Everyone is more or less in their twenties. Don is oldest, Charlotte is youngest.