FUKT

by Emma Goldman-Sherman

FULL-LENGTH, BAPF Finalist, Unicorn Finalist, FUKT is an oddly uplifting personal tale of traumatic memory, murder & private parts! With zombies, a striptease and song, this immersive, fearless journey to bare all is a healing balm for anyone with a secret.

Emma (played by an actor) tries to perform a one-woman show, only Barbara and Bobbie interrupt and demand to be included. Bobbie carries the memories of the...

FULL-LENGTH, BAPF Finalist, Unicorn Finalist, FUKT is an oddly uplifting personal tale of traumatic memory, murder & private parts! With zombies, a striptease and song, this immersive, fearless journey to bare all is a healing balm for anyone with a secret.

Emma (played by an actor) tries to perform a one-woman show, only Barbara and Bobbie interrupt and demand to be included. Bobbie carries the memories of the traumas Emma survived. Barbara forgot and doesn't want to remember. FUKT is about how three fragmented aspects of a traumatized person come together to heal.

Content Warning: this play deals with traumatic memory about childhood incest and sexual abuse. The play could trigger anyone who is already dealing with (or ignoring) these issues.

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FUKT

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  • monte vognsen: FUKT

    Inventive and absorbing.

    Inventive and absorbing.

  • sheila duane: FUKT

    So compelling and still so frightening to read. It’s urgent, gripping, and dangerous.
    FUKT explores the complexity of love that threatens, bullies, and diminishes but fills an unconscious requirement. It explores a child’s unconditional love for a parent, even when that parent is a predator or an enabler, and the complicated nature of guilt and complicity buried in victimhood.
    How can a human being dismiss another’s humanity? Deprive, to cheat a child out of what is sacred in childhood? of a voice? Of personhood? The three selves in this play are authentic and open a spiritual door.

    So compelling and still so frightening to read. It’s urgent, gripping, and dangerous.
    FUKT explores the complexity of love that threatens, bullies, and diminishes but fills an unconscious requirement. It explores a child’s unconditional love for a parent, even when that parent is a predator or an enabler, and the complicated nature of guilt and complicity buried in victimhood.
    How can a human being dismiss another’s humanity? Deprive, to cheat a child out of what is sacred in childhood? of a voice? Of personhood? The three selves in this play are authentic and open a spiritual door.

  • Christopher Plumridge: FUKT

    FUKT is an incredible piece of performance theatre, worthy of its success so far, and surely more to follow.
    Emma presents three versions of her protagonist, along with cameos from more, in a compelling, funny, emotional play with a desperately sad story at its heart. Audiences will be engrossed as I was reading this play, for the pace is quick and slick.
    I really do hope I can be lucky enough to see this staged.
    SUPERB!

    FUKT is an incredible piece of performance theatre, worthy of its success so far, and surely more to follow.
    Emma presents three versions of her protagonist, along with cameos from more, in a compelling, funny, emotional play with a desperately sad story at its heart. Audiences will be engrossed as I was reading this play, for the pace is quick and slick.
    I really do hope I can be lucky enough to see this staged.
    SUPERB!

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Character Information

3 Jewish women, 20s (sings and plays guitar or ukelele), 30s (sexy, performs a striptease), 40s or 50s
They are all the same woman
  • Bobbie
    sings and plays guitar or ukelele
    Character Age
    20s and younger - should be played by an adult
    Character Race/Ethnic Identity
    Any
    Character Gender Identity
    Female
  • Emma
    Character Age
    40s
    Character Race/Ethnic Identity
    Any
    Character Gender Identity
    Female
  • Barbara
    Sexy, performs a striptease
    Character Age
    30s
    Character Race/Ethnic Identity
    Any
    Character Gender Identity
    Female

Development History

  • Type Residency, Organization The Tank NYC, Year 2022
  • Type Workshop, Organization COVID POSTPONED New Circle Theatre Company, NYC, Year 2020
  • Type Reading, Organization New Circle Theatre Co., Year 2019
  • Type Reading, Organization New Circle Theatre Company for International Women's Voices Day, Year 2018
  • Type Reading, Organization W.H.A.M. at Goddard Riverside for Women's History Month, Year 2018
  • Type Workshop, Organization Dixon Place, Year 2018

Awards

  • Ashland New Play Festival
    Semi-Finalist
    2022
  • Bay Area Playwrights Festival New Play Award
    Playwrights Foundation
    Finalist
    2020
  • The In-Progress New Play Reading Series
    Unicorn Theatre
    Finalist
    2020