Recommended by Katherine Gwynn

  • Katherine Gwynn: Rock Egg Spoon by Noah Diaz
    “

    a stunning piece full of rage and tenderness and empathy, spilling over with questions about being heard and hearing others.

    a stunning piece full of rage and tenderness and empathy, spilling over with questions about being heard and hearing others.

    ”
  • Katherine Gwynn: Alond(R)a by Gina Femia
    “

    oh god--a gutpunch of a play. a beautifully messy story about being a teenager and moving past fear and fighting for your life.

    oh god--a gutpunch of a play. a beautifully messy story about being a teenager and moving past fear and fighting for your life.

    ”
  • Katherine Gwynn: The Kritik by Brenda Withers
    “

    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.

    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.

    ”
  • Katherine Gwynn: The Virtuous Fall of the Girls from Our Lady of Sorrows by Gina Femia
    “

    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.

    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.

    ”
  • Katherine Gwynn: Desire in a Tinier House by Ryan Oliveira
    “

    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.

    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.

    ”
  • Katherine Gwynn: More Than the Animals by Gina Femia
    “

    this monologue got me right in my queer girl catholic heart. funny, taut and earnest beyond belief.

    this monologue got me right in my queer girl catholic heart. funny, taut and earnest beyond belief.

    ”
  • Katherine Gwynn: lasting beauty by J. Chavez
    “

    one of the most realistic ways I've seen suicideal ideation discussed, as young queer people tend to discuss it. it's funny until it's not, it's brutal until there's a release, and in 10 short pages you go throughout a journey with these characters. a great 10 minute.

    one of the most realistic ways I've seen suicideal ideation discussed, as young queer people tend to discuss it. it's funny until it's not, it's brutal until there's a release, and in 10 short pages you go throughout a journey with these characters. a great 10 minute.

    ”
  • Katherine Gwynn: A Play about David Mamet Writing a Play about Harvey Weinstein by Mathilde Dratwa
    “

    you need to produce this play.

    this play is what it sounds like yes--but also not. it does not give answers. it demands question after question after question, an incessant barrage that bears the the tender flesh at the heart of american theatre. it gives space for rage and wondering and fear and hope, all in equal measure.

    you need to produce this play. now. not in 5 years. now.

    you need to produce this play.

    this play is what it sounds like yes--but also not. it does not give answers. it demands question after question after question, an incessant barrage that bears the the tender flesh at the heart of american theatre. it gives space for rage and wondering and fear and hope, all in equal measure.

    you need to produce this play. now. not in 5 years. now.

    ”
  • Katherine Gwynn: Milk and Gall by Mathilde Dratwa
    “

    this play is a fierce dissection into motherhood, into womanhood, into white womanhood, into rage and fear and hope--it's brilliant. do this play.

    this play is a fierce dissection into motherhood, into womanhood, into white womanhood, into rage and fear and hope--it's brilliant. do this play.

    ”
  • Katherine Gwynn: Wolves Eat Elk by MJ Kaufman
    “

    a beautiful, sparse and surreal play about fear and home and longing.

    a beautiful, sparse and surreal play about fear and home and longing.

    ”