←Recommendations of Let Down Your Hair

  • Cheryl Bear: Let Down Your Hair by Matthew Ivan Bennett
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    A very fun political comedy taking on sex education and the presidential race with sheer hilarity! Well done.

    A very fun political comedy taking on sex education and the presidential race with sheer hilarity! Well done.

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  • Kenneth Jones: Let Down Your Hair by Matthew Ivan Bennett
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    Matt Bennett’s deliciously fractured fairy tale LET DOWN YOUR HAIR is a ferociously absurd political comedy that reimagines Rapunzel’s mother as running for president while micromanaging her daughter’s sex education. The play has the fury and humor of Christopher Durang’s best plays, and manages to be specific about a political moment and universal about the difficult twists and turns of parenting and being parented.

    Matt Bennett’s deliciously fractured fairy tale LET DOWN YOUR HAIR is a ferociously absurd political comedy that reimagines Rapunzel’s mother as running for president while micromanaging her daughter’s sex education. The play has the fury and humor of Christopher Durang’s best plays, and manages to be specific about a political moment and universal about the difficult twists and turns of parenting and being parented.

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  • Unicorn Theatre: Let Down Your Hair by Matthew Ivan Bennett
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    This play was a SEMIFINALIST for the 2017-2018 In-Progress New Play Reading Series at Unicorn Theatre in Kansas City, Missouri. It is our pleasure to support LET DOWN YOUR HAIR.

    This play was a SEMIFINALIST for the 2017-2018 In-Progress New Play Reading Series at Unicorn Theatre in Kansas City, Missouri. It is our pleasure to support LET DOWN YOUR HAIR.

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  • Rachel Bublitz: Let Down Your Hair by Matthew Ivan Bennett
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    Hilarious, dark, sensual, and lyric, LET DOWN YOUR HAIR is a wonderful piece of story telling that weaves together fairy tales with modern culture and politics in a beautiful and seamless story. The language is rich and the visuals and theatricality of this play are so exciting. Quick, someone produce this play so that I can see it!

    Hilarious, dark, sensual, and lyric, LET DOWN YOUR HAIR is a wonderful piece of story telling that weaves together fairy tales with modern culture and politics in a beautiful and seamless story. The language is rich and the visuals and theatricality of this play are so exciting. Quick, someone produce this play so that I can see it!

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  • Eugene O'Neill Theater Center: Let Down Your Hair by Matthew Ivan Bennett
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    It is the Eugene O'Neill Theater Center's pleasure to recommend Matthew Bennett and their play Let Down Your Hair as a finalist for our 2016 National Playwrights Conference. The play rose through a competitive, anonymous, multileveled selection process that took nearly nine months to execute. As one of 54 finalists out of more than 1,450 submissions, the strength of its writing has allowed this work to prosper in such a competitive selection process. Our readers appreciated the seamless combination of fairy tale, dark humor, and contemporary political commentary.

    It is the Eugene O'Neill Theater Center's pleasure to recommend Matthew Bennett and their play Let Down Your Hair as a finalist for our 2016 National Playwrights Conference. The play rose through a competitive, anonymous, multileveled selection process that took nearly nine months to execute. As one of 54 finalists out of more than 1,450 submissions, the strength of its writing has allowed this work to prosper in such a competitive selection process. Our readers appreciated the seamless combination of fairy tale, dark humor, and contemporary political commentary.

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