Black Escalade

After weeks of being trailed by a mysterious car, Ros, a fertile 20-something, finally accepts an invitation to step inside. Once buckled in, the car’s owner—a former video girl-turned-mystic—offers her a haunting proposition: power in exchange for her fertility. As the SUV hurtles across the country toward Omaha, flanked by angels, the women embark on a surreal, high-gloss journey through luxury, longing, and...

After weeks of being trailed by a mysterious car, Ros, a fertile 20-something, finally accepts an invitation to step inside. Once buckled in, the car’s owner—a former video girl-turned-mystic—offers her a haunting proposition: power in exchange for her fertility. As the SUV hurtles across the country toward Omaha, flanked by angels, the women embark on a surreal, high-gloss journey through luxury, longing, and the psychic toll of womanhood under capitalism. Set inside the plush, masculine interior of a moving vehicle, Black Escalade is a darkly mythic road play about speed, sacrifice, and what it costs to belong to your own body.

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  • Matthew Paul Olmos: Black Escalade

    Caitlin creates a world which slyly hijacks male excess and power, and subverts it into a space where Ros and Dee can ultimately find connection; despite the tricked’out, technological world which suffocates us all. Her language and theatricals lift off the page and tease at what this celestial play would feel like in three’dimensions; onstage where it belongs. A stunningly constructed excursion of women resisting those that held power against them.

    Caitlin creates a world which slyly hijacks male excess and power, and subverts it into a space where Ros and Dee can ultimately find connection; despite the tricked’out, technological world which suffocates us all. Her language and theatricals lift off the page and tease at what this celestial play would feel like in three’dimensions; onstage where it belongs. A stunningly constructed excursion of women resisting those that held power against them.

  • Shaun Leisher: Black Escalade

    This play's brilliance stems from its simple premise of 2 characters that want something from each other. From there, Caitlyn Saylor Stephens takes us on an exploration of power, gender, capitalism and fame/infamy in the digital age all through these under-represented voices. This play is asking the questions that we need to be asking on our stages and its bound to excite any actor, director or designer that reads it.

    This play's brilliance stems from its simple premise of 2 characters that want something from each other. From there, Caitlyn Saylor Stephens takes us on an exploration of power, gender, capitalism and fame/infamy in the digital age all through these under-represented voices. This play is asking the questions that we need to be asking on our stages and its bound to excite any actor, director or designer that reads it.

  • Gwydion Suilebhan: Black Escalade

    This play is on fire. The script narratively and structurally innovative, and the story is built around under-represented voices, and the play feels more fresh than anything I've read in a long while.

    This play is on fire. The script narratively and structurally innovative, and the story is built around under-represented voices, and the play feels more fresh than anything I've read in a long while.

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