Punk Rock Mix Tape Play

by Marisa Carr

Being a teenage girl is hard, and being a teenage brown girl is harder – but being a teenage brown girl in the punk scene during the post-9/11 Bush administration? That’s something else entirely. This coming-of-age play, loosely structured as a mix tape, sits at the intersection of race, gender, and youth, and explores the cost of finding your place in a world shifting rapidly in ways you barely understand.

Being a teenage girl is hard, and being a teenage brown girl is harder – but being a teenage brown girl in the punk scene during the post-9/11 Bush administration? That’s something else entirely. This coming-of-age play, loosely structured as a mix tape, sits at the intersection of race, gender, and youth, and explores the cost of finding your place in a world shifting rapidly in ways you barely understand.

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Punk Rock Mix Tape Play

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  • Kristin Idaszak: Punk Rock Mix Tape Play by Marisa Carr
    “

    This deft coming-of-age story continually upends expectations. Like the eponymous mixed tape, it elicits the ache of remembering--no, reliving--your misspent youth without being able to change it. The play's tenderness for its unnamed protagonist is matched by its incisive, nuanced portrait of a complex subculture. Carr has a vital voice, and I can't wait to see this play onstage.

    This deft coming-of-age story continually upends expectations. Like the eponymous mixed tape, it elicits the ache of remembering--no, reliving--your misspent youth without being able to change it. The play's tenderness for its unnamed protagonist is matched by its incisive, nuanced portrait of a complex subculture. Carr has a vital voice, and I can't wait to see this play onstage.

    ”

Development History

  • Residency, The Ground Floor at Berkeley Rep, 2018