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Katherine Gwynn

Recommended by Katherine Gwynn

  • Wicked Creatures by Emma Carter
    11 Apr. 2019
    “ "Wicked Creatures" is gothic horror where the monsters in the home aren't ghosts or beasts, but misogyny, ableism, and the denial of bodily autonomy--wholly human horrors. It deftly navigates complicated questions around consent, being a survivor of abuse and perpetrating that same abuse, and what it means to exists as a woman in the world. Though a period piece, it feels timely and sharp, and offers no easy answers. ”
  • The Moors by Jen Silverman
    25 Mar. 2019
    “ a vicious and delightful gothic horror--I swallowed this whole play in one gulp. The violence feels so carefully measured throughout that the end still managed to shock me. And Agatha and Emilie's relationship--that last scene they share--it's thrilling. ”
  • Penelope Clefts Herself in Two Along an Invisible Line, or, The Penelepussy by arroyo monfiletto
    12 Dec. 2018
    “ Bitterly funny with writing sharp as a knife, I started reading this at work and couldn't stop. It manages to be a incisive critique of how trans women are often treated by the world around them (as lesser women, as men pretending to be women, as sexual conquests) while allowing Penelope to still be complicated, messy, and no one's martyr. ”
  • Calypso in Harlem by arroyo monfiletto
    11 Dec. 2018
    “ This play thrums with poetry, laughter, trauma, sex, loss, and lip-synching but above all, it is fervently tender. It's a play that is unapologetically queer, and full of spectacle, without making a spectacle of the lives of its queer characters. This play is one long love letter I want to plaster all over the stage. ”
  • The Suicide Jockey by Lena Barnard
    11 Nov. 2018
    “ Barnard is a writer who toes the lines gracefully between tenderness and brutality, the mundane and the surreal. This play is taut, sharp, and honest all the way through, slowly building until it ends in a muffled explosion. ”
  • All the People You've Been by Matthew Capodicasa
    10 Sep. 2018
    “ A tightly gorgeous and devastating play. Capodicasa has written a story that melds the horror of sci-fi body-snatchers pulp-fiction with the allure and mythology of a long forgotten folktale. But more than that, this is a play about a parents', and their children and the desperate actions we take to care for another person. ”
  • SOMETHING FOR THE FISH by Emily Krause
    9 Aug. 2018
    “ a lyrical yet taut exploration of grief, of the ways in which women are silenced, and of how we can be haunted by the places we make our home. ”
  • The Paper Dreams of Harry Chin by Jessica Huang
    5 Jun. 2018
    “ A new American fable about identity, names, and the ghosts that stay with us--a simply gorgeous and deeply moving play. ”
  • Some Pictures of the Floating World by Matt Minnicino
    5 Jun. 2018
    “ I saw a reading of this at Great Plains, and what seems to start as a sweet and playful world of surreal tenderness slowly falls apart as it begins to investigate the horrifying and unique violence that pulses in a cult. Matt dissects masculinity, sexuality, violence, and cycles of abuse, all the components that tend to forge cults; But in addition, in SPOTFW, he has a crafted a uniquely gripping--and terrifying--structure that exposes the power words have to shape us while his beautiful language washes over us. It's a play that could only be a play--the best kind of play. ”
  • Women Wear White - Ten Minute Play by Lindsay Kennedy
    7 May. 2018
    “ I directed this play for a festival in Kansas City, and was drawn in from the first page. Adams exposes both the white supremacy historically underlying many of the well-known white suffragettes in history, and how this pattern repeats itself in 'feminist' activism all too often today. An incisive and taut 10 minute that isn't afraid to let the audience sit in discomfort. ”

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