Fridge

by Jennifer O'Grady

Published in THE BEST TEN-MINUTE PLAYS 2021 (Smith and Kraus)
Audience-choice award in KIT's International Women in Comedy Festival and many other productions

(10 Min) A woman and her fridge. A play about failure and acceptance.

Published in THE BEST TEN-MINUTE PLAYS 2021 (Smith and Kraus)
Audience-choice award in KIT's International Women in Comedy Festival and many other productions

(10 Min) A woman and her fridge. A play about failure and acceptance.

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  • Lainie Vansant: Fridge

    O'grady has created a brilliant metaphor that readers and audiences can map many important relationships onto in this poetic play about a refrigerator. It's silly and sweet and surprisingly deep -- definitely worth a read.

    O'grady has created a brilliant metaphor that readers and audiences can map many important relationships onto in this poetic play about a refrigerator. It's silly and sweet and surprisingly deep -- definitely worth a read.

  • Andrew Martineau: Fridge

    This is everything a ten-minute should be: theatrical, witty and metaphorical. This fridge, for me, is a metaphor for the high cost of a relationship you feel comfortable with but are not sure is worth the emotional investment. Then you have the people on the outside of the relationship just making everything worse. I love the fridge’s affirmation that it can make it after all. Wonderfully inventive and heartwarming!

    This is everything a ten-minute should be: theatrical, witty and metaphorical. This fridge, for me, is a metaphor for the high cost of a relationship you feel comfortable with but are not sure is worth the emotional investment. Then you have the people on the outside of the relationship just making everything worse. I love the fridge’s affirmation that it can make it after all. Wonderfully inventive and heartwarming!

  • Paul Donnelly: Fridge

    A lovely metaphor for making a relationship work with an imperfect partner. Plenty of humor fills these pages as the woman's frustration is explored. The resolution models acceptance and is highly satisfying.

    A lovely metaphor for making a relationship work with an imperfect partner. Plenty of humor fills these pages as the woman's frustration is explored. The resolution models acceptance and is highly satisfying.

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Character Information

  • FRIDGE
    A fridge.
  • WOMAN
  • REPAIRPERSON 1
  • REPAIRPERSON 2

Development History

  • Type Reading, Organization Caravan Productions (U.K.), Year 2021
  • Type Reading, Organization The Social Distancing Short Play Festival (FL), Year 2020
  • Type Reading, Organization Fractured Time Productions (U.K.), Year 2020
  • Type Reading, Organization Lucido Sottile Festival (Italy), Year 2020
  • Type Reading, Organization WineBox Players, Year 2020

Production History

  • Type High School, Organization Bigelow Middle School (MA), Year 2024
  • Type High School, Organization St. Aloysius College (Adelaide, Australia), Year 2024
  • Type University, Organization Fairleigh Dickinson University Players (NJ), Year 2023
  • Type University, Organization Glendale Community College (CA), Year 2023
  • Type Community Theater, Organization Barn Community Center (NH), Year 2022
  • Type Community Theater, Organization Student Production, Abrons Art Center (NYC), Year 2022
  • Type University, Organization Emporia State University Theatre (KS), Year 2022
  • Type High School, Organization Marine City High School (MI), Year 2021
  • Type Professional, Organization PlayZoomers, Year 2021
  • Type Professional, Organization Short+Sweet Perth (Australia), Year 2021
  • Type University, Organization Northland Pioneer College (AZ), Year 2021
  • Type Professional, Organization Kairos Italy Theater (NYC), Year 2020
  • Type Professional, Organization Theatre Three Off-Stage/On-Line Series (NY), Year 2020

Awards

  • Shortlist
    Short + Sweet Sydney
    2022
  • Short + Sweet Perth (W. Australia)
    Selection
    2021
  • Shortlist
    Short + Sweet Dubai
    2022
  • Shortlist
    Short + Sweet Sydney
    2021
  • Publication--THE BEST 10-MINUTE PLAYS 2021
    Smith and Kraus
    2021
  • Shortlist
    Short + Sweet Dubai
    2021
  • 2nd Place
    Kairos Italy Theater Women in Comedy Festival
    Audience Choice
    2020
  • Stage It! Ten-Minute Play Contest
    Semi-Finalist
    2020