The Garden Club by
4 Mar. 2024
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a farce that slowly dissolves into something else entirely, I love how this play examines how we try to be in community with one another. ”
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Katherine Gwynn
Recommended by Katherine Gwynn
- Will and Way by4 Mar. 2024“ I'm so incredibly jealous that I didn't write this play because I just think it is so pitch perfect--a brilliantly fun and heartbreaking, Will and Way are modern Didi and Gogo in this hymn to artists and friendship and the vulnerable beauty and pain of both. ”
- Muted. by18 Feb. 2024“ got to see a production of this at Red Theatre--the play is worth it alone for the devastating moment of Chelsea screaming into the recorder, playing back her own silence, her loneliness a vice grip in the room around her. ”
- TRANSUBSTANTIATION by1 Dec. 2023“ mostly read this because as a queer and trans catholic I'm fucking sucker for queer and trans catholic stories but this really surprised me. Vicious and horrifying and tender and earnest. I tire so deeply of trans perfectionism--and I yearn for trans stories like this, that allow us to foul and human like anyone else. Aster is a writer with so much promise, and I'm excited to see what else she might create. ”
- My Mother The Sun by3 Jun. 2023“ a stunning symphony of life and death and pain and hope under the beautiful and unforgiving blister of the sun--Arroyo is a writer to watch. ”
- A Driving Beat by9 May. 2023“ a tender play about a mother and son at odds with trying to both discover and cling to their past--warm until the very end, despite it all. ”
- Younger by9 May. 2023“ a lovely and sweeping play dripping with atmosphere and widely relevant despite the near century span between the setting of the play and the here and now--would LOVE to see a production of this in Chicago ”
- STNK by14 Feb. 2023“ an incredibly funny ACAB farce sharp as the edge of a knife ”
- The Magnolia Ballet by15 Jun. 2022“ a gorgeous southern gothic fantasia--the production of this at About Face in Chicago was lovely, and I hope it gets produced more widely! ”
- The Secretaries by24 May. 2022“ one of the most exciting pieces of theatre i've seen in Chicago--absurd, vile, tender, and meticulous in detail about how Fascism and white womanhood is a snake eating it's own tail. Brilliant. ”