The Penetration Play

by winter miller

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...

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
    Two friends from college in their 20's, the mother of one of them.
    Character Age
    20s + 50's
    Character Race/Ethnic Identity
    Any

Development History

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

Production History

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