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Katherine Gwynn

Recommended by Katherine Gwynn

  • The World is Ending and Maybe That's Kinda Hot by Catherine Weingarten
    22 Apr. 2021
    “ "I want to be so special someone doesn't know what to do with me." Oofa fucking doofa.
    This play is a biting satire about privilege and gender and sex starring terrible-ish people--but then it has lines like THIS that cut to quick of what it means to desire and be desired. A really lovely strange play that I think adapts the tone of The Decameron for modern audiences delightfully and truthfully. ”
  • Marie Antionette and the Magical Negros by Terry Guest
    5 Apr. 2021
    “ the reading of this play was the last piece of live theatre I saw before lockdown occurred in the US--and I'm so glad that the last play I got to see in person was this. A wonder of humor, compassion, rage, and empathy, this play is a true gem, and exactly the kind of theatre I want to see when we can be amongst one another in a dark room once more. ”
  • Meet Murasaki Shikibu Followed by Book-Signing, and Other Things by Julia Izumi
    9 Dec. 2020
    “ I just finished reading this play in one furious delighted gulp. God--what a joy to find a play that explores a famous woman writer that actually frustrates the notions of "the woman writer" or legacy, or how one relates to their own art. I found this play so delightful and so then, so unexpectedly tender. I really hope to see this performed at some point. ”
  • MUKBANG by Remy Solomon
    22 May. 2020
    “ a visceral, painful, and honest play about disordered eating, fatphobia, diet culture, and more. ”
  • Fremont Junior High Is NOT Doing Oklahoma! by Paul Michael Thomson
    17 Apr. 2020
    “ Within the first page I was choking with laughter. And then by the last page my heart felt torn in two, as I had gone through the highs and lows, trials and tribulations, and traumas and triumphs of Fremont Junior High's drama club trying to pick their spring production. The gift of this script is that even though it is darkly, piercingly funny, we never laugh at our our preteen leads, or think that their goals don't matter. No, part of why this play cuts to the quick is that we empathize with them fully and totally. A true delight. ”
  • Rock Egg Spoon by Noah Diaz
    5 Mar. 2020
    “ a stunning piece full of rage and tenderness and empathy, spilling over with questions about being heard and hearing others. ”
  • Alond(R)a by Gina Femia
    27 Feb. 2020
    “ oh god--a gutpunch of a play. a beautifully messy story about being a teenager and moving past fear and fighting for your life. ”
  • The Kritik by Brenda Withers
    7 Feb. 2020
    “ god this play is a DELIGHT. it's laugh out loud funny (really the wit in this is razor sharp) but it also cut to the quick of me more times than I could count. These are characters that feel everything earnestly, and this play prods at what it means to make a play yes, but also what it means to be in community with one another.

    also--oh to be an actor in this. so many breathtaking monologues that always feel desperately earned. ”
  • The Virtuous Fall of the Girls from Our Lady of Sorrows by Gina Femia
    2 Jan. 2020
    “ Femia perfectly captures the fear and horniness and desperation and desire for more that I felt as a queer teenage girl in catholic school and also captured the queer teenage catholic girl I wish I had been brave enough to be, and wish I had felt like I could be but wasn't give space to be, and wish I felt safe enough at the time to be. I desperately hope I get to see this produced. And to every theatre company that is trying to 'produce 'measure for measure' for the #metoo era"--please just produce this instead. ”
  • Desire in a Tinier House by Ryan Oliveira
    21 Dec. 2019
    “ I was lucky enough to see the premiere production of this play. a gorgeous play about desire yes, but also about how we hold onto one another when the world is falling apart. ”

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