←Recommendations of Tiny Thin Woman Inside

I hope this play gets produced very soon. It says some really interesting things about society's obsession with thinness. It's a black comedy about a woman wanting to be accepted no matter her size. Well-written and nuanced representation of queer love too.

This play is amazing! Meaker uses heightened theatricality so well to draw stark attention to the ways society pits women and femme folk against one another and themselves and their bodies in so many ways. They tackle body image, disordered eating, fatness/fitness, health provider gaslighting, and a lot more. They manage to do this in a play that is equal parts hilarious and heartbreaking and scary--fine lines to straddle. I also appreciated the nuanced and complex and just so natural queer representation. I'd love to see this produced!

Mickey's monologue half-way through the play had me wiping away tears. It all felt so familiar while remaining a bit surreal. This dark comedy will stick with me for a while. We are constantly being told about the thin woman inside of us, if only we would let her out. But once she's out, what darkness or emptiness will take her place? And will this just be the first reveal in a never ending nesting doll of reaching for an unreachable ideal?

This play holds an incredible truth about existence while somehow being so funny...and so not. I love how this play gets right to the issue of what it means to be "fit" and challenges the reader/audience to examine their own relationship with "fitness" and offers a thorough dissection of what that even means. I love this play! A perfect snapshot of our current hilarious problematic reality.

Who knew a take-down of diet culture could be so funny and sexy and surreal? (Courtney knew, I guess). And while she reveals the role a dysfunctional culture plays in body-shame, the story is ultimately about our inner demons becoming external and how we self sabotage despite our better judgement. It's a bitter pill to swallow, but Courtney explores our collective trauma through absurdist delight and an honesty that's hard to deny. Highly recommend!

Courtney Meaker's "Tiny Thin Woman Inside" blends a biting dark humor and touching human connection in this increasingly surreal (yet horrifyingly truthful) descent into a culture relentlessly obsessed with selling women a thinner, lesser version of themselves. The play explores bodies, queerness, and our (quite literal) battles with our inner demons. I've never read a play before that so honestly and brutally articulated what it means to be fat in a world that constantly demands that we either be a lesser version of ourselves or not ourselves at all.

I love this play. It IS: humor, fury, and sex in a funhouse world of body obsession. It is NOT: apologetic.

A funny funny dark in your face play that makes you wanna throw your salad out the window. Courtney is a fresh,bold voice and this play talks about body image in a way you've never seem before.