Recommended by Katherine Gwynn

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    a deliciously strange script. a tender and frightening look at how men talk to each other and maybe actually come to know one another.

    a deliciously strange script. a tender and frightening look at how men talk to each other and maybe actually come to know one another.

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    this play had me and the audience HOOTING ands HOLLERING--I know nothing about card collecting or sports and yet I was hooked, fully committed to the love and care these characters had for the hobby. Fucking good stuff here.

    this play had me and the audience HOOTING ands HOLLERING--I know nothing about card collecting or sports and yet I was hooked, fully committed to the love and care these characters had for the hobby. Fucking good stuff here.

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    I keep thinking about this play weeks after seeing it. Strange and distancing and explosive and quiet--and that the final scene. That lonely conversation followed by that lonely scream into a dark empty room. I'd love to see this fully unleashed.

    I keep thinking about this play weeks after seeing it. Strange and distancing and explosive and quiet--and that the final scene. That lonely conversation followed by that lonely scream into a dark empty room. I'd love to see this fully unleashed.

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    every time Dinah write a new play I am delighted and awed by the ways they unearth both joy and tragedy through language--god, and the snail sequence. I am going to think about that scene for a long LONG time.

    every time Dinah write a new play I am delighted and awed by the ways they unearth both joy and tragedy through language--god, and the snail sequence. I am going to think about that scene for a long LONG time.

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    yet again Arroyo has written a play that is stunningly queer right down to it's marrow, specific and exact to its and the characters' circumstances, and deliciously frigthening in its exploration in fitting form to narrative. nobody is really doing it like Arroyo. this play would be sooooo gorgeous to see in Chicago

    yet again Arroyo has written a play that is stunningly queer right down to it's marrow, specific and exact to its and the characters' circumstances, and deliciously frigthening in its exploration in fitting form to narrative. nobody is really doing it like Arroyo. this play would be sooooo gorgeous to see in Chicago

  • Katherine Gwynn: DEAD GAY BODY by Abe Johnson
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    swift sharp chilling satire. Like if Glee was eiffel-towered by John Waters and Carmen Maria Machado--which I mean as a high compliment. great fucking work

    swift sharp chilling satire. Like if Glee was eiffel-towered by John Waters and Carmen Maria Machado--which I mean as a high compliment. great fucking work

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  • Katherine Gwynn: The Garden Club by dinah berkeley
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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.

    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: Will & Way by dinah berkeley
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    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.

    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.

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  • Katherine Gwynn: Muted. by Zack Peercy
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    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.

    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.

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  • Katherine Gwynn: transubstantiation by Aster Aguilar
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    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.

    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.

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