Recommended by Katherine Gwynn

  • Katherine Gwynn: In the Temple of Light by arroyo monfiletto
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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 Abraham 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

    ”
  • Katherine Gwynn: Tip the Scale by persephone Van Ort
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    a play that stands as an endurance demand for your attention and your empathy and your discomfort and your joy and your fear all at once. at many points I could not imagine how this play could be done, which is thrilling, because it means that it needs community and collective, not singular, imagination.

    a play that stands as an endurance demand for your attention and your empathy and your discomfort and your joy and your fear all at once. at many points I could not imagine how this play could be done, which is thrilling, because it means that it needs community and collective, not singular, imagination.

    ”
  • 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.

    ”
  • 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.

    ”
  • 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.

    ”
  • Katherine Gwynn: My Mother The Sun by arroyo monfiletto
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    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 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.

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  • Katherine Gwynn: A Driving Beat by Jordan Ramirez Puckett
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    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.

    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.

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  • Katherine Gwynn: Younger by Kelundra Smith
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    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

    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

    ”