The Penetration Play

Triangles are never easy. Rain wants Ash. Maggie wants Ash to marry Rich. Ash wants to have her cake and eat it. This verbally taut comedy revives a little-known adage: If at first you don't succeed, seduce your best friend's mother.



"The cracklingly funny dialogue summons up the feel of a raunchy gossip session that includes an uncomfortable, almost violent game...
Triangles are never easy. Rain wants Ash. Maggie wants Ash to marry Rich. Ash wants to have her cake and eat it. This verbally taut comedy revives a little-known adage: If at first you don't succeed, seduce your best friend's mother.



"The cracklingly funny dialogue summons up the feel of a raunchy gossip session that includes an uncomfortable, almost violent game of one-upmanship."

Jason Zinoman, The New York Times
"...a smart, elegantly simple three-character play for strong women actors that moves like lightning -- any theatre that wouldn't touch it is missing out."

Loren Noveck, NYTheatre.com
"This is a witty, bitterly mocking play. Playwright Winter Miller has written a tight, carefully structured script."

Jenny Sandman, CurtainUp
"The dialogue that Winter Miller sets down on the stage for her characters is very conversational, which makes her characters as believable and tangible as anyone I know off-stage."

Timothy John Papp, OffOffOnline
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The Penetration Play

Character Information

  • Full Cast
    20s + 50's,
    Any
    , Array
    Two friends from college in their 20's, the mother of one of them.

Development History

  • Workshop
    ,
    Pataphysics with Craig Lucas
    ,
    2004
  • Workshop
    ,
    Columbia University Thesis
    ,
    2003

Production History

  • Professional
    ,
    The Stag Theater, London
    ,
    2019
  • Professional
    ,
    13P (13 Playwrights)
    ,
    2004