←Recommendations of Stinky Girls

Such a great time. Sullivan's characters exist at the daring intersection between the micro-relatable and the frighteningly, grotesquely unpalatable, and Sullivan knows just how to make this strange world her own. I'm in love with the heightened-yet-banal realm that's been sculpted here. A lovely challenge for SFX artists!

Ooh, this good! There are no surprise twists nor turns here. This one is all about how far it goes. It starts off in a direction and keeps relentlessly going in that direction leaving you thinking, “Okay, brake. Brake! Oh my god, brake!!” Nice bit of horror here. Highly recommend!

I had the privilege of seeing this play go up three times in three separate audiences and you've never seen a room be so alive. In theater I'm always looking for plays that break the rules of what audiences expect. This is a perfect example. The kind of play that inspires me, not just because it's brilliant, but because it opens pathways for what we can portray on stage and how we can do it. Funny, f*cked-up, gross as hell, and endearing all in ten minutes.

STINKY GIRLS defies expectations. It’s a short horror without a traditional conflict. An antagonist, a plot. With a keen sense of the theatrical, of the stage’s unique possibilities—Playwright Kelsey Sullivan finds other ways to fascinate. Escalating disturbing weirdness from its two twisted characters. On the page, It feels like performance art. Dada. The rule-breaking is liberating, the laughter simultaneously excludes and invites. Check it out. I wish there were more playwrights that take this kind of risk.

There's a moment in Caryl Churchill's TOP GIRLS - a moment of disturbing intimacy between two young girls, a moment of shared adolescent anxieties and frustrations and bodily fluids, and you know exactly what moment I'm talking about if you know the play - that's over in an instant, as if it's too much even for Churchill to confront. That's where Kelsey Sullivan STARTS - for her, there's no such thing as too much, and STINKY GIRLS is a giddy, demented, ferocious blast of id from one of our most fearless young playwrights.

Nasty. But the dark truth of what is inside us is always nasty. Elina and Margie just go deeper than any friends would typically go. The laughter and casual sleepover setting will definitely add to the horror of the revelations and gore. Dark, nasty, truths.

Saw this play on the list for a horror fest and absolutely see why it was selected. Grotesque, funny, shocking and somehow still super sweet!

GROSS, I love this play about two friends confiding in each other about their shameful body secrets. Delightfully f--ked up.

Can't wait to see how a theatre tackles the effects of this play. What a horrifying and fantastic short body horror play. A celebration of friendship and the weird things we do to our bodies.

This is what we go to the theatre for! Genuinely upsetting. Would be a fantastic piece to have an audience react to. Like a horror movie. A fantastic work of physical, visceral, ALIVE theatre. But don't let it fool you, it's not just a shock-piece; Sullivan's words are delivered masterfully as well. Just look at the pacing, the subtle repetitions, the laser-sharp dialogue. She's taken certain meme dialogue tropes and thrown them straight at the reader's face. Wonderful, wonderful, wonderful. Produce it.