←Recommendations of Shut Up, I'm on a Diet!

A pitch black dark comedy about healing and connection. I especially love the scenes between Tess and her Dad. So well written and hilarious.

The tension between Tess and Digby was thick. The Dad was cringe funny. Funny and fascinating rhythm/line structures. Pointed in its ridiculousness. So, like, no bacon?

I loved reading this expanded universe from the world of "This Car Trip Suckss!" With just four vividly-drawn characters, Weingarten executes a fully fleshed-out exploration of familial relationships, friendship, recovery and treatment facilities, and emerging sexuality AND the intersection of those things with body and self-image and mental health. The world manages to be both super heightened and entertainingly theatrical, while also grounded in strong emotional truths. Weingarten's work is so identifiable by its hilarity, sharp satire, multi-dimensionality, and distinctly cadenced dialogue. I'd love to see this alive and onstage!

Getting down with the lingo here was worth it. Weingarten is representative of her generation (millennial?) and I enjoyed getting to know her. Great satire of the age of treatment centers, and whether they're any good at all. The main character, Tess, though she initially denies it, is her father's daughter. Though Weingarten is up for the story, she doesn't miss a chance at hysteria - of the good kind, I hope.

Hilarious satire of Eating Disorder treatment centers. As hysterical as this play is, it's really not far from the truth. This play manages to make you laugh AND punch you in the gut. Sometimes the people who love us the most are not the people who have our best interests at heart.

Catherine Weingarten has a way of dropping you right into a wild world the minute you step into her play. Shut Up, I'm on a Diet! launches us into a land of wacky extremes and extreme choices. This play is funny and strange and, at times, menacing.

Wild, aggressive, and surprisingly vulnerable. Catherine Weingarten deploys utterly contemporary language to obfuscate, avoid, and dive headfirst into Tess's troubled life and relationships. A piece for the fucked up mermaid inside all of us.

WOW. This play is remarkable - Catherine's voice is loud and sharp and unflinching. I'm completely floored by this play! She's able to go deep without being sentimental, able to show us our ugliness without apologizing. AND she's hilarious. Read this play, do this play, support Catherine.

Being a sixteen-year-old girl is rough, but Weingarten's play is able to paint the devastation of unrequited love and torrid teen affairs with juicy, delicious language that takes you into the heart and mind of many in their adolscence years

This distinctive and irresistible play takes you deep into the secret world of a teenage girl who just wants to grow up and do her taxes...but also kinda wants to disappear. Its wild and surprising landscape and language will take you somewhere unexpected, offering a penetrating portrayal of a girl's quest for liberation from social norms that try to shut her up, and a connection with her clueless and misguided father.