Recommendations of JOHN DESERVES TO DIE

  • Lee Harrison Daniel: JOHN DESERVES TO DIE

    I think about this play all the time. I think about "GIRLS ARE OFF THE FUCKING RAILS" all the time. Rachel Greene's work is funny and sad and cathartic and scary, and we should all be reading it.

    I think about this play all the time. I think about "GIRLS ARE OFF THE FUCKING RAILS" all the time. Rachel Greene's work is funny and sad and cathartic and scary, and we should all be reading it.

  • Maeve Kelley Baker: JOHN DESERVES TO DIE

    This play is outstanding! With fast-paced dialogue and raw emotion, Greene points a mirror at the academic theater scene. Catharsis and liberation for those burned, shunned, and exploited by the collegiate, she provides a voice - and a place to scream - for the femme theatrical.

    This play is outstanding! With fast-paced dialogue and raw emotion, Greene points a mirror at the academic theater scene. Catharsis and liberation for those burned, shunned, and exploited by the collegiate, she provides a voice - and a place to scream - for the femme theatrical.

  • Jolie Frazer-Madge: JOHN DESERVES TO DIE

    An absolutely FANTASTIC play about female rage and empowerment. I was fortunate enough to get to see this play in performance and I was on the edge of my seat the entire time. Most importantly, this play has saved me from ever having to read a David Mamet play.

    An absolutely FANTASTIC play about female rage and empowerment. I was fortunate enough to get to see this play in performance and I was on the edge of my seat the entire time. Most importantly, this play has saved me from ever having to read a David Mamet play.

  • Shaun Leisher: JOHN DESERVES TO DIE

    This play is so tense and thrilling. I was at the edge of my seat the entire time. Loved the moments where the fourth-wall was broken. PRODUCE THIS PLAY!!

    This play is so tense and thrilling. I was at the edge of my seat the entire time. Loved the moments where the fourth-wall was broken. PRODUCE THIS PLAY!!

  • Jillian Blevins: JOHN DESERVES TO DIE

    This feminist indictment of Oleanna, David Mamet, academic theatre, and fatphobic culture at large crackles with electricity and rage. The world preys on the insecurities of young women; it minimizes them, and more insidiously, makes them desire smallness. Rachel Greene creates a hall of mirrors where Oleanna, John Deserves To Die, and the metatheatrical perspective of audience itself blend in mind bending and dynamic ways.

    The female characters of JDTD are people, not archetypes. They aren’t written through the perspective of a man, or a woman writing for the male gaze. And that itself is...

    This feminist indictment of Oleanna, David Mamet, academic theatre, and fatphobic culture at large crackles with electricity and rage. The world preys on the insecurities of young women; it minimizes them, and more insidiously, makes them desire smallness. Rachel Greene creates a hall of mirrors where Oleanna, John Deserves To Die, and the metatheatrical perspective of audience itself blend in mind bending and dynamic ways.

    The female characters of JDTD are people, not archetypes. They aren’t written through the perspective of a man, or a woman writing for the male gaze. And that itself is revolutionary.

  • Hayley Haggerty: JOHN DESERVES TO DIE

    A play that interrogates not only David Mamet's work and legacy wonderfully well, but also the intersection of fat liberation and theatrical academia in skewering passion. A rollicking read and expose in and of itself!

    A play that interrogates not only David Mamet's work and legacy wonderfully well, but also the intersection of fat liberation and theatrical academia in skewering passion. A rollicking read and expose in and of itself!

  • Max Berry: JOHN DESERVES TO DIE

    "John Deserves to Die" stands on it's own as a powerful and important story about abuse of power and the extremely harmful ways that theatre is taught in a college setting. Though, being tied so tightly to Mamet and using that to parallel the events of the play, it adds a whole other layer, not only calling out the abusive environments in many rehearsal rooms, but demanding we take a second look at what stories we want/need to tell and saying "We can do better."

    "John Deserves to Die" stands on it's own as a powerful and important story about abuse of power and the extremely harmful ways that theatre is taught in a college setting. Though, being tied so tightly to Mamet and using that to parallel the events of the play, it adds a whole other layer, not only calling out the abusive environments in many rehearsal rooms, but demanding we take a second look at what stories we want/need to tell and saying "We can do better."

  • John Bavoso: JOHN DESERVES TO DIE

    In a world looking more and more critically at Mamet’s work and stature in the theatre (how delicious that one of the leads has Vogel as a surname!), Greene has found a twisty, taut way of adding to the conversation. I particularly appreciated the intersectional way fatness and queerness are layered into the broader discussion of sexism and misogyny. In a similar vein of “John Proctor is the Villain” (do better, fictional Johns!), this play invites audiences to take a much closer look at the art we consume and the way in which it gets made.

    In a world looking more and more critically at Mamet’s work and stature in the theatre (how delicious that one of the leads has Vogel as a surname!), Greene has found a twisty, taut way of adding to the conversation. I particularly appreciated the intersectional way fatness and queerness are layered into the broader discussion of sexism and misogyny. In a similar vein of “John Proctor is the Villain” (do better, fictional Johns!), this play invites audiences to take a much closer look at the art we consume and the way in which it gets made.

  • Nick Malakhow: JOHN DESERVES TO DIE

    A wonderful, sharp, ensemble-piece filled with nuanced and complex femme characters. It also contains a spectacular reading of "Oleanna" that everyone who thinks they're familiar with the play or who thinks it's actually "good art" should take a listen to. The constellations of relationships we see--Andy and Jen, Jen and Laura, Andy and Laura, Leah and Andy, and, of course, all of them and their prof--are all very specific and fleshed out. An important examination of male privilege and abuse in academia, rehearsal rooms, and the world at large, and of what it takes to start dismantling it.

    A wonderful, sharp, ensemble-piece filled with nuanced and complex femme characters. It also contains a spectacular reading of "Oleanna" that everyone who thinks they're familiar with the play or who thinks it's actually "good art" should take a listen to. The constellations of relationships we see--Andy and Jen, Jen and Laura, Andy and Laura, Leah and Andy, and, of course, all of them and their prof--are all very specific and fleshed out. An important examination of male privilege and abuse in academia, rehearsal rooms, and the world at large, and of what it takes to start dismantling it.

  • Brynn Hambley: JOHN DESERVES TO DIE

    John Deserves to Die says everything I've always wanted to say about how I've felt regarding a LOT of men in education and rehearsal rooms. It also says everything I've always thought about the misogynistic nature of Mamet's work. No spoilers, but the ending will have you standing on your chair shouting "HELL YES GIRL GET HIM!" A very validating piece for anybody who identifies as a femme in the theatre world.

    John Deserves to Die says everything I've always wanted to say about how I've felt regarding a LOT of men in education and rehearsal rooms. It also says everything I've always thought about the misogynistic nature of Mamet's work. No spoilers, but the ending will have you standing on your chair shouting "HELL YES GIRL GET HIM!" A very validating piece for anybody who identifies as a femme in the theatre world.