←Recommendations of Diving Board

  • Erin Malone Turner: Diving Board by Malena Pennycook
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    In this play, Pennycook beautifully explores the desperate yearning of that peculiar/fraught/lovely time right on the cusp of adulthood. These characters so deeply want to be seen, understood, accepted, & taken seriously. The tension, joy, & wonder of growing up are all incredibly palpable. An excellent piece!

    In this play, Pennycook beautifully explores the desperate yearning of that peculiar/fraught/lovely time right on the cusp of adulthood. These characters so deeply want to be seen, understood, accepted, & taken seriously. The tension, joy, & wonder of growing up are all incredibly palpable. An excellent piece!

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  • Shaun Leisher: Diving Board by Malena Pennycook
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    A truly moving play about ambitious young women.

    A truly moving play about ambitious young women.

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  • Nick Malakhow: Diving Board by Malena Pennycook
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    An original and compelling exploration of the lives of a few specific young women with broader and more widely sweeping implications and conclusions about what it means to go through life as a woman. The physicalization of terror and existential threat women and girls face in the form of the faceless men is unique and haunting. The dialogue rhythms are so on point. Finally, there's also lots of potential built in here for inventive theatricality. Pennycook provides a wonderfully drawn roadmap that would guide a creative production team while also leaving much room for individuality in...

    An original and compelling exploration of the lives of a few specific young women with broader and more widely sweeping implications and conclusions about what it means to go through life as a woman. The physicalization of terror and existential threat women and girls face in the form of the faceless men is unique and haunting. The dialogue rhythms are so on point. Finally, there's also lots of potential built in here for inventive theatricality. Pennycook provides a wonderfully drawn roadmap that would guide a creative production team while also leaving much room for individuality in interpretation.

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  • Jan Rosenberg: Diving Board by Malena Pennycook
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    I really love this play about the terror of being a young woman, being trained by everything and everyone around you to anticipate harm and fear. I love these characters and Malena's dark humor. Spooktacular.

    I really love this play about the terror of being a young woman, being trained by everything and everyone around you to anticipate harm and fear. I love these characters and Malena's dark humor. Spooktacular.

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